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What does black smoke coming out of the Vatican mean ... a practice that continues today. What does white smoke coming out of the Vatican mean? White smoke coming out of the Vatican chimney ...
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They were waiting for smoke to waft from a chimney over the chapel: black for votes that fail to get a winner or white when they ... Robertus or Ioannes? Maybe Claudius or Christophorus?
Here's how the conclave creates black and white smoke and why the Catholic Church began using them to signal whether a new pope has been elected.
Johnson also noted, "A stereotypical association of the colour of the smoke — white (positive) and black (negative) — lies behind the use of the two contrasting smoke colours." Over the years ...
The smoke is created by burning the ballots, and originally just meant that no pope had been elected. It was only in the conclave of 1914, which elected Benedict XV, that differen ...
Tradition holds that black smoke indicates the cardinals have not yet agreed on a new leader, while white smoke signals that a new Pope has been elected. But what kind of smoke is it exactly?
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