From The New York Times-Black smoke billowed from a makeshift chimney atop the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, signaling that the 115 cardinals of the Roman Catholic church eligible to vote for a new pope had again failed to elect a successor to Benedict XVI and meaning that balloting would continue until they do.
A first ballot also ended inconclusively on Tuesday, signaled by the inky black smoke from the copper chimney jutting from the chapel’s roof.
Voting is set to continue — up to two rounds in the morning and two in the afternoon — until the cardinals reach a two-thirds majority of 77 votes. At that point, white smoke will billow forth, telling the world’s one billion-plus Roman Catholics they have a new leader to take on the myriad challenges confronting their church. The bells of St. Peter’s Basilica will peal over the huge piazza of the same name to announce the election of Benedict’s successor.
It was not immediately clear how many rounds had been held on Wednesday before the black smoke emerged.In what was scheduled to be the first full day of balloting since the conclave began on Tuesday, the prelates celebrated a morning mass in the Pauline Chapel of the Apostolic Palace before the anticipated voting in the Sistine Chapel under 16th century frescoes by Michelangelo.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/14/world/europe/vatican-pope-selection-conclave.html?_r=0
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