Black smoke again pours from Sistine Chapel, signaling no new Pope chosen

You can find NBC s live blog on the conclave here Black smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City around a m Chicago time indicating no pope was elected on the second of third ballots of the mysterious and secretive conclave Its the second black smoke signal of the conclave which began Wednesday That indicates that there is still no two-thirds consensus NBC s Mary Ann Ahern released from Vatican City Thursday Ahern added that Wednesday s vote was much longer than expected We thought that it would be perhaps minutes or so Ahern noted It ended up being three hours The voting cardinals will now return to the Vatican residences where they are being sequestered for lunch After that they will go back to the Sistine Chapel for the afternoon voting session Voting will occur regularly in the morning and afternoon until a pope is selected which is signaled by white smoke Two more votes are feasible in the present day It s not necessarily surprising that we do not have that consensus yet Ahern declared Of the cardinal electors percent are new to the conclave When will the smoke rise again After voting ballots are burned in a special stove black smoke signals no decision while white smoke means a new pope has been chosen Before the conclave began the Vatican press office declared that morning smoke would likely rise around noon Rome time which is about seven hours ahead of Chicago When will there be a new Pope Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re the dean of the College of Cardinals says he hopes that a new pope would be elected by this evening I hope that when I return to Rome this evening I ll find the white smoke already rising Re explained in the city of Pompei according to Italian newspapers Re is years old which makes him too old to participate in the conclave of cardinals who are electing the next pope and who all have to be younger than Chicago cardinals playing a big role The United States counts cardinals among the eligible to vote for the successor to Pope Francis With its cardinals representing the U S has the second-most of any nation behind Italy home to of the electors who gathering for the Vatican conclave Only four of the American electors actively serve as archbishops in the U S Timothy Dolan of New York Chicago archbishop Blase Cupich Joseph Tobin of Newark New Jersey and Robert McElroy of Washington Two are retired archbishops Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston and Wilton Gregory of Washington Gregory was born in Chicago and ordained there in serving as auxiliary bishop beginning in After years as bishop in Belleville Illinois he was appointed in by John Paul II to be archbishop of Atlanta The other four have had long Vatican facility Chicago-born Robert Prevost James Michael Harvey Raymond Burke and Kevin Farrell Prevost is prefect of the Vatican s powerful dicastery for bishops in charge of vetting nominations for bishops around the world He has extensive experience in Peru first as a missionary and then archbishop Francis had an eye on him for years sending him to run the diocese of Chiclayo Peru in He held that position until when Francis brought him to Rome for his current role This story uses functionality that may not work in our app Click here to open the story in your web browser