The average length of the last nine conclaves was just over three days. No clear frontrunner has emerged since Benedict announced that he intended to step down, becoming the first pope since medieval times to do so. The next leader of the Roman Catholic Church will be chosen by a Vatican conclave of cardinals, all of whom are blocked from contact with the outside world.
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It has also been shaken by rivalry from other churches, the advance of secularism, especially in its European heartland, and problems in the running of the Vatican bank. The former head of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Cardinal Roger Mahony, is attending the conclave despite calls for him to stay away because of a sex abuse scandal that led to his censure by his successor Archbishop Jose Gomez in January. He was stripped of all public and administrative duties as punishment. Mahony was accused of helping a confessed paedophile priest escape prosecution.
Graphics on the conclave link. In preparatory meetings before the conclave, the cardinals seemed divided between those who believe the new pontiff must be a strong manager to get the dysfunctional bureaucracy under control and others who are looking more for a proven pastoral figure to revitalise their faith across the globe. But if the "fumata bianca," or white smoke, flows out of the chimney than the world knows there is a new Bishop of Rome.
The color has to be just right, or millions of onlookers will be fooled. The color of that smoke depends on what those particles are made of," Robert Krampf, a science educator who calls himself the Happy Scientist, told CBS News via email. White smoke is usually more complex, made up of fuel vapor, water vapor or mineral ash.
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