Reuters. Black smoke billowed from the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday (May 8), indicating that the morning of the second day of the conclave resulted without the election of a new pontiff.
A record 133 cardinals from 70 countries were set to resume voting for a successor to the late Pope Francis, who died in April, in the largest and most geographically diverse conclave in history.
The red-hatted "princes of the Church" are due to hold two votes in the morning session and two in the afternoon, continuing in the coming days until one man has secured a majority of at least two-thirds.
Argentine-born Francis was elected in 2013 at the end of the second day, after five rounds of voting. In 2005, it took two days but only four votes to pick Germany's Benedict XVI.
