Cardinals Again Fail to Elect New Pope [View All]

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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=1&u=/ap/20050419/ap_on_re_eu/pope&sid=84439559

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"Black smoke emerged from the Sistine Chapel chimney again Tuesday as the scarlet-robed cardinals inside failed in two more ballots to elect a new pope to build on John Paul II's 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 when the smoke appeared just before noon. The 115 voting cardinals sequestered in the chapel broke for lunch and reconvened in midafternoon for the day's final session of secret balloting.

White smoke — and the pealing of bells shortly afterward — eventually will tell the world that the church's 265th pontiff has been chosen to succeed John Paul, who died April 2 at age 84.

The smoke Tuesday morning confused onlookers for the second time in two days. But this time bells added to the uncertainty as well."