Crowds were left waiting for hours today as cardinals began their first round of voting.

And Vatican sources have now confirmed the two causes for the voting delay.

Here are the reasons: 

• The sermon by Raniero Cantalamessa, an Italian cardinal, was longer than expected (between 45 minutes and one hour);
• Several cardinals needed help with the translation. 

It should be noted on the second reason that many of the cardinals don’t speak any Italian or Latin and have also been in the role for a short period of time.