More Black Smoke

The Associated Press reports that more black smoke chugged from the Sistine Chapel chimney Tuesday signaling the cardinals have not yet selected a new pope.

According to the Associated Press "no conclave in the past century has lasted more than five days, and the election that elevated Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla to into the papacy as John Paul II in October 1978 took eight ballots over three days."

Now that the conclave is in its second day, the odds for Cardinal Francis Arinze of Nigeria have slipped to 7 to 2 from yesterday's 3 to 1, but Cardinal Arinze is still the favorite of the oddsmakers.

In posting about yesterday's black smoke The Glittering Eye posted "a poetical (and fanciful) description of a meeting of the Cardinals from English poet, John Milton. Be warned Milton was a bit anti-Catholic.