Black smoke from chapel chimney: No pope yet

NICOLE WINFIELD,Associated Press

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Black smoke has poured from the Sis­tine Chapel chim­ney, sig­nal­ing that car­di­nals have failed to elect a pope on their first try.

The car­di­nals held the first day of the con­clave Tues­day deeply divided over the prob­lems of the church and who best among them could fix them fol­low­ing the stun­ning res­ig­na­tion of Pope Bene­dict XVI. The Vat­i­can made clear it didn’t expect a win­ner on the first ballot.

The car­di­nals now return to the Vatican’s Santa Marta hotel for the night. They return to the Apos­tolic Palace for Mass Wednes­day morn­ing and a new round of voting.

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