Black smoke as cardinals head to lunch

Black smoke has billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, meaning cardinals have not elected a Pope in their second or third rounds of balloting.

Black smoke as cardinals head to lunch

Black smoke has billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, meaning cardinals have not elected a Pope in their second or third rounds of balloting.

Cardinals voted twice today in Michelangelo’s famed frescoed chapel after a first vote yesterday in a conclave to elect a successor to Benedict XVI, who stunned the Catholic world last month by becoming the first Pope in 600 years to resign.

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