WASHINGTON (WUSA9) --  Does the absence of the white plume of smoke at the Sistine Chapel after the first vote mean we can expect for a long conclave?

Doctor Christopher Ruddy from the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America talks to us about the possible meanings of a short and long conclave as well as the issues in the Church -- and the world -- that may be shaping the cardinals' choice of a new pope.