Christmas is usually the only time anyone pays any attention to Chimneys but eyes have been on the one in the Vatican which for the second day running is polluting the air with black smoke, meaning they haven't yet decided who is the next one in the funny hat to replace Francis.
The 133 cardinals whose job it is to choose the next Pontiff will have to vote again and that is scheduled for this afternoon and again at 7pm if they still can't decide but the noises coming from the Vatican is that they fully expect to be looking around for something which emits White Smoke at some point today.
Listening to the Cardinals speak, they seem torn between a Pope who will continue the progressive work of Francis who had no problem with homosexuality, women, divorce, abortion or Atheism or a traditional Pope who will turn the calendar back centuries and calling them all abominations again.
One Cardinal said that the main directive for the new Pope is to: 'Strengthen faith in God in a world that seemed to have forgotten about God a bit' which is a bit harsh because we haven't forgotten about him, those of us with a few working brain cells looked at the feeble evidence and decided it was all a load of phooey and ignored the whole thing.
So if the Catholics will be jangling their rosary beads in excitement for a Pope Parolin, Tagle, Erdő, Sarah or Prevost, some of the first one's to know will be the 100,000 who are signed up to the live stream of the chimney on the Sistine Chapel's roof where they have been treated to sights of the Vatican's pigeons who as yet, are undisturbed by white smoke.