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2025 conclave continues for a second day as cardinals resume voting to pick a new pope
A new pope will be selected when a candidate gets a two-thirds-plus-one majority vote by the cardinal electors. White smoke will be sent up the chimney of the Sistine Chapel when that happens, to indicate a new pope has been chosen.
Black smoke bellowed from the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday night, meaning the cardinals did not select a new pope. More voting ...
Papal conclaves have featured calls of election fraud and bribery so gauche that riches were wheeled in on donkey carts.
Here's how the conclave creates black and white smoke and why the Catholic Church began using them to signal whether a new ...
Multiple rounds of voting likely will be required before a candidate emerges with the two-thirds majority required to become ...
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