The cardinals involved in the papal conclave “have to start now reflecting and entering into that prayer and that decision to say, ‘OK, I want to do not my own will, but the will of the father,'” Rev. Fr. Robert F. McKeon told Newsmax on Wednesday.

Catholic cardinals who will choose the next pope were locked behind the heavy wood doors of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, sequestered from the world to elect the man they hope can unite a diverse but divided global Church.

“I was reflecting this morning today’s gospel was actually from the Gospel of John for daily mass,” McKeon, the pastor at Saint Catherine of Alexandria Parish in the Archdiocese of New York, said on “National Report.”

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