"No one does a play like a Holy Catholic and apostolic church," said Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York. Shortly after Thursday's meeting elected Pope Leo XIV.

A quick decision about 33 hours after the doors of Sistine Chapel were closed and quarantined showed that they were likely to have entered the Francis legacy decision, indicating that they did not have to spend a few days hitting the new direction of Vatican for a few days.

The Archbishop of Newark said in a joint press conference with five other American cardinals on Friday in the weeks leading up to the meeting. "We listen to each other. What does the church need? What does the world need? What do we hope? Do we dream about it?"

Leo was formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost, a native American, with Peruvian citizenship and deep connections to Latin America, and the Vatican described Francis' first as "the second pope of the Americas." He is known to be close to the late Pope in daily transactions in the Vatican and ideologically.

Like Francis, Leo is known for his concern for the poor and marginalization, and in his first Sunday wishes, Francis quotes Francis and calls for a ceasefire in Ukraine and Gaza, the subject of Francis’ ultimate message to the world.

The conclusion is shrouded in secrecy, and many of the deals that led to it remained in the shadows, but since the meeting ended, some cardinals have glimpsed what happened in the time that led to Leo's election.

Once the doors of Sistine Church were closed, the cardinal swore to be "absolute and permanently confidential" and all Vatican employees assisted them, including chefs, cleaners and drivers. Cellphones are confiscated, an ancient cause of digital detoxification, at least one Cardinal Vincent Archbishop Nichols of Westminster thanked him for “giving him more time to pray, just to reflect, just to stay still, not to keep stirring,” he told the BBC.

On the first night, the Cardinal cast the first round of votes, but the smoke swayed from the chimney, meaning there was no choice for the Pope.

The Cardinal adjourned him to Casa Santa Marta, where most of the people in the hotel live and eat. "There are a lot of conversations happening at meal times, coffee breaks, those moments where you can get involved in smaller groups," Cardinal Wilton Gregory said.

"The only way is human, to talk to each other, to talk, to talk, to each other," said Archbishop Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington, of the conversation that ultimately led to the election of the pope.

The next morning the Cardinal returned to Sistine Church and voted twice more, but the smoke appeared again.

"Voting is like observing glacier movements, but sometimes the pressure under glaciers gets faster and faster," Tobin said.

Despite extensive speculation about Pabalili after Francis’ death, once the meeting started, we don’t know who the other leaders were or why they were behind. But Dolan Tell CNN that even before the meeting begins, Prevost's name begins to appear from a relatively obscure perspective. He continued to enter the meeting with his brother Cardinal.

"It's not that he stood up and gave a convincing speech," Gregory said. "I don't remember any special interventions, but I do believe he was very effective in participating in smaller group conversations."

Although the conclusions over the past few centuries may continue for weeks, the Prevost election began to form the next day.

Or Gregory forms the framework: “The next day there is a great movement, the great movement inside the body is there, except that the grace of God brings us toward this consensus.”

"What I've experienced is that it all starts with politics and completes the mystics," McIlroy added.

Tobin recalls the moment after the vote. "I walked back and looked at Bob because his name kept floating, and he had his head in his hand." "I was praying for him because when you face something like this, I couldn't imagine what would happen to humans."

At a press conference on Saturday, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of the Philippines, himself one of the pope's main candidates, said he sat next to Prefoster.

In the minutes after his election, the new pope gasped as his new character descended on him, Tagel said he asked if he wanted a piece of candy. Prevost accepted, and Tagle pulled one from a pocket under his Cardinal’s robe, “This is my first act,” he said, jokingly telling Prevost, “for our new Holy Father.”

Not long after, Prevost appeared on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, as Pope Leo XIV, a proven effective and successful meeting.

“This is not our first rodeo,” Dolan said. “We’ve experienced 268 times.”