UPDATE: IT’S BLACK SMOKE AT 11:50 AM.
This means that in neither of the two ballots this morning did any candidate garner 89 votes or more.
Editor’s Note: EWTN allows those who follow this channel to participate in their live chat. But after my reports on their coverage and the irregularities of the 9 P.M. coverage, EWTN has blocked FromRome.Info from participating in that chat! — But they emphasize that they are good Catholics who begin everything with a prayer.
I wonder if they found a prayer from Pravda, about censoring dissidents?
EWTN is ridiculously saying that there was a 2 hour delay in the smoke because Cardinal Cantalamessa gave a long homily! — This is the quality of EWTN reporting.
Amazingly, nearly no one is in the Piazza di San Pietro awaiting the vote!
Important facts: Cardinal Zen has gone home, because his visa from the CCP does not allow him to remain, because being a Catholic, the CCP fears that an anti-CCP pope be elected.
Here is a camera view of the chimney, watching for the white smoke that would signal the election of a new Roman Pontiff:
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