Rosica explained that the 115 voting cardinals will take their time, and added that they have a “very clear idea..|He added that the first vote typically involves a “wide field of names” and the vote Wednesday morning likely served to “narrow down the set of names|In the 2005 conclave that brought Pope Benedict XVI to the pontificate, the cardinals chose then-Cardinal Ratzinger to succeed Pope John Paul II on the second day of voting.