The death of a pope begins a centuries-old ritual involving sacred oaths by the cardinals electing a successor, the piercing of ballots with a needle and thread after they’re counted, after which burning them to supply both the white or black smoke to sign if there’s a brand new chief for the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics.
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