However, the secrets at the center of this Vatican-set tale are rich with intrigue ... while the world watches for them to send up white smoke to indicate the vote, and if the requisite two ...

Some work at the Vatican, but most are spread out worldwide ... along with a chemical that makes the smoke black. If the smoke is white, however, the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics have ...

But given that the Vatican doesn't really do Hollywood ... and then burned with a chemical to send either black smoke, ...

The famous white smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel chimney ... In 2005, Joseph Ratzinger was one of the most senior cardinals based in the Vatican. There was a sense that well-organised ...