
VATICAN CITY: Black smoke was pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney , indicating no pope was elected on the primary poll of the conclave to decide on a brand new chief of the Catholic Church.Greater than 130 Catholic cardinals on Wednesday started the secretive, centuries-old ritual to elect a successor to Pope Francis, opening probably the most geographically various conclave within the religion’s 2,000-year historical past. Two by two, the cardinals entered the Sistine Chapel chanting the meditative “Litany of the Saints” as Swiss Guards stood at consideration.