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And if you've never seen this all go down before, you may wonder: what's the difference between black smoke and white smoke coming out of that chimney? The answer: black smoke means they've voted ...

Here puffs of black smoke mark voting rounds that fail to converge on a winner until the cardinals announce that they have come to an agreement by releasing a plume of white smoke, the dramatic ...

If black smoke plumes over the Vatican, observers know a new pope has yet to be chosen. If white smoke is spotted ... professor at Virginia Tech, told USA TODAY. As the conclave approaches ...

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In a tradition that scholars date to the 19th century, smoke released from a chimney will be colored white if the cardinals have made a decision, or black if they remain deadlocked. By Elisabetta ...

Black smoke indicates that votes have been cast, but no candidate has received the two-thirds majority required to be elected pope. White smoke ... Jesuits of the United States–just after ...

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