VATICAN CITY
New York Daily News
By Christina Boyle / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
VATICAN CITY — Black smoke over the Vatican — we do not have a new Pope.
The 115 cardinals who have locked themselves inside the Sistine Chapel revealed to the world that they have failed to select a new pontiff on their first ballot — a widely expected outcome as the papal conclave got underway Tuesday afternoon.
The cardinals will return for two votes Wednesday morning and, if no white smoke billows over the Vatican, two more votes in the afternoon.
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