(AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
The Cardinals have as expected in their first ballot no new pope elected. The smoke from the chimney this evening of the Sistine Chapel was black.
Tomorrow up to four ballots instead. In the previous conclave, in April 2005, the German Joseph Ratzinger elected after four ballots. In 1978, eight rounds of voting needed before the Pole Karol Woytila pope was elected.
In St. Peter’s Square in Rome had himself Tuesday evening thousands of people gathered to await the outcome of the first vote in the conclave.
The police pressed at least two women on the ground that the square had bared their breasts. Their identity is not yet clear. Agents locally would not say anything. Presumably their protest against the exclusion of women from the priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church.
Before the doors of the conclave were closed, the 115 voting cardinals sang the famous song Pentecostal Veni Creator Spirituous (Come Creator Spirit) and they laid hand on the Bible the oath in which they promise confidentiality. After all had it not allowed to vote, leave the room. It involved dozens of people.
Emeritus Pope
Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI follows the election of his successor in prayer. That the Vatican spokesman said. Benedict went on the day of his departure end of February to the Pope in Castel Gandolfo zomerverbijf and is known by his secretary Georg Gänswein inform of what is happening in the Vatican.
Black smoke from Sistine Chapel: no new pope
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