Cardinals Fail in 2nd Attempt to Pick Pope
‘Black smoke chugged from the Sistine Chapel chimney again Tuesday as the scarlet-robed cardinals inside failed in their second day trying to elect a new pope to build on John Paul II’s extraordinary legacy and heal deep rifts within the Roman Catholic Church.
Several thousand pilgrims and tourists who packed St. Peter’s Square to stare at the slender stovepipe jutting from the chapel’s brown tiled rooftop gasped as the smoke appeared just before noon. The 115 voting cardinals sequestered in the chapel were to break for lunch and reconvene in the afternoon for the day’s final session of secret balloting.
The crowd was quiet at first as it tried to determine the color of the smoke, which first appeared to be gray. As the plume darkened, the pilgrims began to disperse.’
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