Black Smoke Indicates No Pope After 2 Votes Today -- CBC
Cardinals break for lunch, then return for voting in afternoon
Black smoke emerged from the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel at 11:40 a.m. local time in Rome today, indicating no successor to Benedict XVI has been elected as leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
The cardinals voted twice in the famous frescoed chapel in the morning, having failed during the first vote on Tuesday — as expected — to agree on who should lead the church.
Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi tried to downplay any suggestion that the failure, thus far, to elect a new pope pointed to divisions in the Church.
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