If at the end of a vote, no new pope has been elected, the ballots are mixed with chemicals which produce a black smoke ... with chemicals which produce white smoke. Roughly 30 to 60 minutes ...

If a pope hasn't been chosen, the ballots will be burned along with a chemical that makes the smoke black. If the smoke is white, however, the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics have a new head ...

Once two-thirds of the cardinals agree on a choice, the final ballots are burned alone, and the white smoke that emerges ... who would become the first black pope. Latin American papabili ...

Sealed in a suite of rooms, the cardinals are not allowed to connect with the outside world except through the burning of their ballot papers twice a day – white smoke means a new pope, black that the ...