Posted on 04/19/2005 5:00:40 AM PDT by el_doctor2
VATICAN CITY — Smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel (search) chimney just before noon Tuesday — first emerging as gray but then turning darker — signaling that the cardinals had failed to choose a new pope for the second time.
When the 115 voting cardinals do decide on a successor to Pope John Paul II (search), who died April 2 at age 84, the chimney will spew white smoke and bells will toll shortly afterward.
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and this is ok with the EU EPA, they dont want to put air emissions rules on this I presume
Next smoke due at 1:00pm EST per Fox News.
It's a defined schedule - "around" 6 AM and 1 PM Eastern time are the two signals for each day.
If those folks at the Vatican would just use a few Orioles or maybe a Raven or two instead of just Cardinals, this could have been over by now.
(no offense meant to anyone.)
;-)
>>how the hey do they know that?
"Unconfirmed Vatican Sources?"
Or was there a predefined schedule<<
That is a great question!
Salvation, do you know if there is a schedule for the votes?
I had heard that there were four per day. 1AM 6 AM 1 PM 6PM...i believe EST.
I wonder if Jimmy Carter will certify the results?
The schedule for the emissions of smoke was announced by the Vatican Head of PR, Mr. Navarro-Valls, a few days ago.
You are so smart!
Thanks!
I never could figure out why the baseball team from St. Louis got to pick the next Pope. I mean, come on. If you're going to have a MLB team do it, at least use the Padres.
The rules for the election were reiterated and tweaked by John Paul II in a 1996 Papal document.
Although the exact times of the voting are to be determined by the Cardinals, after one session on the first day (Monday), there must be voting sessions in the morning and in the afternoon of the following days. If no Pope is chosen by a 2/3 majority, a second vote is immediately done in both sessions (but the ballots are not burned until after the second vote in both sessions).
If there's no Pope elected after three days, the Cardinals take a day off to pray and discuss. They then continue for seven more votes. If still no majority, another day off. Repeat same formula; after seven more ballots, another day off.
After what I count up as thirty balloting sessions, the Cardinals can decide to vote only on the top two vote-getters, electing a Pope by an absolute majority.
This could go on for quite a while -- or it could be over today.
Call my smoke!
The Vatican is a country in its own right. The Italian socialists can take a massive dose of shut the bloody hell up.
Regards, Ivan
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