(Papal vote) Cardinals try again after drawing blank
(03-13 09:12)
This time there was no doubt. There was no new pope yet, and the mystery of who _ and when _ was as thick as the black smoke billowing from the Sistine Chapel chimney.
As thousands waited in a cold night rain in St. Peter's Square, the cardinals signaled yesterday they had failed on their first attempt to find a leader for the world's 1.2 billion Catholics and their troubled church, AP reports.
The smoke poured from the 6-foot-high copper chimney at 7:41 p.m.
With no cardinal winning the required 77 votes on the first ballot, the cardinals returned to the Vatican hotel for a simple dinner of pasta with tomato sauce, soup and vegetables before another day of voting today.
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