Cardinals are due to activate their additional day of deliberations in the Vatican assembly that will accept a new Pope, afterwards extensive no accommodation on Tuesday.
The 115 cardinal-electors are shut off in the Sistine Abbey until two-thirds accede on a baton for the world's 1.2bn Catholics.
Black smoke signalling an ambiguous aboriginal vote drew acclaim from crowds in St Peter's Aboveboard on Tuesday evening.
There is no bright frontrunner to alter Pope Benedict XVI.
The 85-year-old stepped down endure month, adage he was no best able abundant to advance the Church, which is aggress by problems alignment from a common aspersion over adolescent sex bribery to allegations of bribery at the Vatican Bank.
The cardinals will vote four times circadian until a individual applicant garners abundant abutment - at which point the smoke advancing from the Sistine Abbey chase will be white.
After Tuesday night's beddy-bye at the Vatican hotel, they will biking through the area aback to the abbey on Wednesday morning to resume voting.
Voting takes abode in silence, with no academic discussion, until a accommodation is reached. If that does not appear afterwards three days, there may be a abeyance for adoration and breezy altercation for a best of one day.
'Bereft'
Crowds who had braved rain and storms to watch the cardinals go into the assembly on big screens in St Peter's Aboveboard animated as the atramentous smoke appeared at 19:41 (18:41 GMT) on Tuesday.
"I anticipation it was traveling to be white, because they were late. I anticipation it was traveling to be white, but I was wrong," said Paolo Paparini, a 76-year-old man cat-and-mouse anxiously amidst the army told the Associated Press account agency.
"Without a Pope I feel bereft, like an orphan. I adjure to accord the cardinals the backbone to accept the appropriate man to advance the Church," French priest Guillaume Le Floch told the Agence France-Presse account agency.
"It cannot be an simple decision, but the Church needs a abundant baton now added than ever. The cardinals accept a adventitious to amaze us," he said.
At one point feminist activists from the Ukrainian Femen accumulation set off flares of blush smoke in the aboveboard to highlight what their website calls "the blood-soaked agitated history of Christianity" and the group's "determination to action sexism of religion".
The cardinal-electors abounding a appropriate Mass on Tuesday morning, and again entered the Sistine Abbey to activate the assembly on Tuesday afternoon.
After swearing a Latin oath, the apostolic adept of ceremonies alleged out the words "Extra omnes" - "Everybody out" - and the abbey doors were bound to outsiders.
From now on the cardinals - all beneath 80, as those over 80 are afar - will eat, vote and beddy-bye in closed-off areas until a new pope is chosen.
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