The author is not without a puckish sense of humor:
"While there will be a continuity in policy, there will be a change in personality because there is no one in the college with John Paul's personality and cloning is against church teaching..."
Rev. Thomas J. Reese, S.J - ahhhhh, a Jesuit. 'puckish' is a generous compliment :-)
I liked the hanging chad part.
He's a good writer. Procedure, history, and religion could make for a dry read, but I found myself interested.
The smoke thing I was always curious about. I always thought the black smoke meant a person known to the public had been rejected. LOL!
I'm not a Catholic, but my grandfather was Irish Catholic fireman with a son who studied to become a priest.