Four votes set as conclave resumes
‘The 115 cardinals taking part in the conclave to elect a successor to Pope John Paul II will convene at the Vatican for the second day on Tuesday with up to four votes scheduled.
Locked away in the Sistine Chapel, the cardinals let it be known that no candidate won their first vote Monday evening, hours after a historic religious ceremony watched around the world.
Beginning Tuesday, a Mass will be held in the cardinals’ living quarters each day at 7:30 a.m. (1:30 a.m. EDT), and they will assemble in the chapel by 9 a.m. Two votes will take place in the morning and two more in the afternoon, beginning at 4 p.m.
After the votes of the morning and the votes of the afternoon, the ballots are burned in a stove at the Sistine Chapel, with the color of the smoke announcing to observers outside whether a pope has been elected.
The ballots from the morning votes will probably be burned about noon, and the ballots from the afternoon will go up in smoke around 7 p.m., Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said.’
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