Vatican Smoke-Watch: Still No Pope

It’s not yet noon and we have no Pope – after yet another nail-biting vote! Over at Fox, specical Papal Contributor Father Jonathan Morris exudes a calming, good-natured confidence (or maybe we’re just “calmed” because he looks a lot like Greg Kinnear). He translates Cardinal Ratzenberger (the odds-on favorite), clarifying that The Holy Spirit hasn’t chosen the new Pope per se (“the Holy Spirit never, ever is going to force us to make a decision”), but rather that His hand will guide the cardinals in their vote-casting journey. Is it wrong that we kind of want to guide Father Jon’s hand ourselves? Oh God, we’re going to hell. A lovingly-taken photo of Father Jon after the jump.

UPDATE: MORE BLACK SMOKE!!! STILL NO POPE!!! MORE PRAYING FOR CARDINALS!!! [11:55 a.m. EST]

UPDATE TO THE UPDATE: WAIT, IS THAT REALLY BLACK, OR MORE LIKE A GRAYISH WHITE? CROWDS CHEER WILDLY, BUT NO BELLS RING!!! ARE WE STILL POPELESS OR WHAT??? [12:06 p.m.EST]

UPDATE TO THE UPDATE’S UPDATE: See “WE HAVE A POPE!!!” above. Yay Pope!

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