DAY TWO OF PAPAL CONCLAVE 2013 GETS UNDERWAY IN ABOUT AN HOUR.............

The second day of the Conclave in motion to elect the next Pope will get underway in about one hour from now at 4 a.m. Pacific, and 7 a.m. Eastern Time for the casting of the second ballot followed two hours later by a third ballot, if the second results in black smoke.  There is speculation this morning that Cardinal Scola of Milan, Italy; and Americans, Cardinal Dolan of New York; and Cardinal O'Malley, of Boston; may have scored the best number of votes in Tuesday night's balloting.  Respected journalist, author, speaker, and Vaticanologist, John Thavis, is blogging that the supposed 2005 Conclave second place choice of the College of Cardinals Buenos Aires, Argentina Archbishop Emeritus Jorge Maria Bergoglio, so impressed his fellow Cardinals in his speeches at the General Congregations last week, to be given a second look again this time.  Even at age 76, he is thought to be a Reformer who can bring renewal and respectable stability back to the Roman Curia in redirecting the functioning and cleaning up the corruption of recent years the Vatileaks scandal and other incidents have disclosed.  What strength the candacies of Brazilian Cardinal Odilo Scherer, or the Argentinian Cardinal Leonardo Sandri possess is another likely factor in sorting out the strongest shiowing candidacies at tis stage of the Conclave.  I will return within thenext hour and a half, to Update Papal Conclave 2013.............Fr.  Troy