113 Cardinals will be sequestered until a new Pope is chosen. UPDATE: Black smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel chimney just after 8pm in Rome(3pm ET), indicating that a new Pope has not been chosen in the first vote by the Cardinal Electors. This is not surprising, since it’s been over 500 years since a Pope was chosen in the very first vote. Sixteen days after the late Pope Francis passed, after a season of feverish articulating and lobbying, 113 Catholic Cardinals went in a procession into the Vatican’s famed Sistine Chapel, and the door was closed to the world. There, under the immortal Michelangelo frescoes in the ceiling, the Cardinals will deliberate and vote on who is to be the next Pope. Michelangelo’s fresco…
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