Cardinals failed again Thursday morning to find a successor to Pope Francis, sending black smoke billowing up through the Sistine Chapel chimney after two more inconclusive rounds of conclave voting.

But despite the wait, Father Sean Connolly of the Archdiocese of New York told Newsmax on Thursday that being in St. Peter’s Square gave him “a sense of belonging.”

“It was an amazing experience for me. And it really felt like the whole church, people from all across the world, were being embraced by the arms of our spiritual mother, the church — which is what the colonnade in front of the basilica represents. So, we all ran into the square to see if we were going to get the good news of a new Pope. But we have to wait some more,” Connolly said on “Wake Up America.”

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