Black smoke emerged from the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel at 11:40 a.m. local time in Rome today, indicating no successor to Benedict XVI has been elected as leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
The cardinals voted twice in the famous frescoed chapel in the morning, having failed during the first vote on Tuesday — as expected — to agree on who should lead the church.
Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi tried to downplay any suggestion that the failure, thus far, to elect a new pope pointed to divisions in the Church.
"We don't have any reason to talk about divisions … nor conflicts," Lombardi told journalists during a media briefing after the morning session of voting.
Lombardi pointed out that only one pontiff, Pope Pius XII, was elected on the third ballot in the past century. The 2005 conclave that elected Benedict XVI required four ballots.
Margaret Lavin, an assistant professor of theology at Regis College at the University of Toronto, told CBC News she was not surprised that the cardinals haven't reached a decision yet, citing the importance of the decision they're trying to make.
"I think the question is: what kind of pope do we need? Do we need one who is going to be strong in governance? Do we need one who is going to be charismatic and bring the church's Catholics together? Do we need one who has what we call 'global fluency' or global value in the world today?" Lavin told CBC's Nancy Wilson.
The cardinals headed back to the Santa Marta hotel for lunch. They will return to the Sistine Chapel at 4 p.m. local time (11 a.m. EDT) to resume voting.
Thousands of pilgrims and tourists in St. Peter's Square endured a chilly rain as they watched the chimney for any indication that a pope had been chosen.
CBC's Steve D'Souza reported that even prior to sighting of the black smoke there was already a buzz in the area with people anticipating a signal from the chimney.
"Of course, then the buzz just grew in intensity as cries of 'fumate nero' started going out. People saying 'the black smoke, the black smoke,' and all this crowd started going to the square to see what was happening."
Once those in the crowd realized the smoke was black, they began to dissipate, D'Souza said.
In the square, Anna Redaelli stood with a sign that reads, "Lecco is with you." Lecco is the hometown of Italian Cardinal Angelo Scola, who Redaelli hopes will be the next pope.
Anna Redaelli (centre, in blue) is from Lecco, the hometown of Italian Cardinal Angelo Scola, whom she hope be elected as the next pope. Redaelli's sign says 'Lecco is with you.' (Karen Pauls/CBC) "When my husband was young, he knew him in the community. He has a great heart," she told CBC's Karen Pauls.
"I wish (there had been white smoke), but all is good. For the pope, I want God's will," Redaelli said.
Torontonian Vito Larrichia has family in Italy and came over just for the conclave.
"As soon as I heard the new pope is coming, I had to come," he said. "It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience you have to see. As a practising Catholic, I think it's very important to have a holy pope, and I wanted to experience it."
Up to four votes per day
The 115 cardinals will vote up to four times a day, twice in the morning and twice in the afternoon, until a new pope is selected. When a single candidate wins the support of at least two-thirds of the cardinals, or 77 votes, white smoke will billow out from the copper chimney, followed by the ringing of bells. If no pope is selected after Friday's voting, the cardinals will pause for a day of prayer on Saturday before they resume another three days of voting.
The drama unfolded against the backdrop of the turmoil unleashed by Benedict's surprise resignation and the exposure of deep divisions among cardinals grappling with whether they need a manager to clean up the Vatican's dysfunctional bureaucracy or a pastor who can inspire Catholics at a time of waning faith and growing secularism.
"Cardinals believe that divine inspiration helps them choose a pope, but there is also sizing up candidates, subtle persuasion and voting in blocks — all of it in secret," CBC's Susan Ormiston said late Tuesday, after the first round of voting.
Speculation about who will become the next pope continued after the first ballot failed to produce a winner.
Ormiston said Cardinal Angelo Scola, 71, of Milan and Cardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer, 63, of Brazil have both been mentioned by many as likely candidates for the top post in the Catholic Church.
Cardinal Marc Ouellet of Quebec is also cited by many Vatican observers as a possible contender to become the next leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics.
Nuns wait for the chimney smoke in St. Peter's Square on Wednesday, the second day of the conclave to elect a new pope. (Oded Balilty/Associated Press) "But they caution that conclaves can push up surprises, especially when there isn't a strong candidate going in —not like back in 2005 when Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict," Ormiston said about Vatican watchers who observed the pre-conclave proceedings
John Allen Jr., a Vatican journalist with the National Catholic Reporter, told CBC's Curt Petrovich that there is no clear front-runner.
"That's the towering difference between 2013 and 2005," Allen said.
The conclave is also drawing some protest — on Tuesday a group held a "pink smoke" protest to speak out about women's equality in the church and the lack of women in the Catholic priesthood.
"Why aren't our voices there? If we're all one in the body of Christ, why is it that those men have taken seats of privilege?" said Therese Koturbash, of the Catholic Network for Women's Equality.
The cardinals, chosen by either Benedict XVI or John Paul II, swore an oath of secrecy ahead of the conclave, and anyone who communicates details about the process risks excommunication.
For more than a week before the voting, the cardinals have met privately to try to figure out who among them has the stuff to be pope and what his priorities should be. But they ended the debate with questions still unanswered, and many cardinals predicting a drawn-out election that will further expose the church's divisions.
The conclave proceeds in silence, with no formal debate, behind closed doors.
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