VATICAN CITY
Slate
By Josh Voorhees
Posted Tuesday, March 12, 2013
The conclave today is holding its first of what will likely be several votes this week to select the next pope. By now you probably know the drill: If someone receives support from two-thirds of this year’s voting cardinals (or 77 of the 115), the Catholic church will have a new pope and we’ll see white smoke billow out from the chimney at the Vatican. If no individual garners the necessary support, we’ll see black smoke, and the cardinals will return again tomorrow to try again until they have settled on their man. (Most are predicting we won’t see white smoke until Thursday.)
You can follow along with CBS News’s Vatican Smoke Cam below, or, for those who prefer reading to watching, you can check out the Guardian’s cleverly simple http://www.istherewhitesmoke.com/.
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