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A chimney above the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican will signal the election of a new pope and leader of the Catholic Church.

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There is a famous quote attributed to then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 1997, in comments to a Bavarian television station.

The papal conclave, the solemn and secretive process in which cardinals convene to choose a successor to Pope Francis, gets underway in the Vatican today.