Pope: “Amazing Scene” As Smoke Appears

MSNBC’s David Shuster is blogging from Rome. Here’s an excerpt from his Monday post: “The smoke started to get darker… and within minutes, the Vatican confirmed that the cardinals ended the day the way nearly everybody had expected, with a first ballot that produced no pope. For a few minutes though, it was an amazing scene as broadcasters and journalists of every stripe wondered what exactly was happening…”

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