Faithful await papal smoke signal

Catholics around the world are still waiting for a new Pope, as cardinals signalled at 7.41pm that they had failed on their first attempt to find a leader for the Church.

Faithful await papal smoke signal

Catholics around the world are still waiting for a new Pope, as cardinals signalled at 7.41pm that they had failed on their first attempt to find a leader for the Church.

Voting papers from the first vote yesterday were burned to produce a plume of black smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney.

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