Cardinals will gather in the Sistine Chapel to elect a successor to Pope Francis in a highly secretive process that could take several days, potentially longer.

The situation remains tense along the Line of Control, the military control boundary in Jammu and Kashmir, with the Pakistan Army trying to provoke the Indian troops with regular cross-border firings in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack.

Cardinals electing Pope Francis’s successor will have an easier time than many of their predecessors, who endured spartan conditions and were even locked up so long that some of them died.