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Follow live coverage from the Vatican on the second day of conclave as cardinals return to the Sistine Chapel to vote for a ...

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Here's how the conclave creates black and white smoke and why the Catholic Church began using them to signal whether a new pope has been elected.

The smoke is created by burning the ballots, and originally just meant that no pope had been elected. It was only in the conclave of 1914, which elected Benedict XV, that different smoke colors were ...

At the end of each voting round, black smoke means a new pope has not yet to be selected, while white smoke indicates a new ...