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Conclave smoke signals ready: Vatican installs chimney over Sistine Chapel

Firefighters work to set a chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel, ahead of the conclave, at the Vatican

Firefighters work to set a chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican on Friday.

 Guglielmo Mangiapane/reuters

VATICAN CITY � The papal smoke signals are ready. Vatican workers on Friday hoisted a chimney onto the roof of the Sistine Chapel, which will be used in burning the ballots for the conclave that will elect a successor to Pope Francis.

The secret meeting begins on May 7, with the sequestered cardinals using the chimney to tell the outside world whether they have elected a new leader of the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church.



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