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People gather in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Wednesday, March 13, 2013, as the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church continued the conclave to choose a new pope. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
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Black smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, meaning Roman Catholic cardinals have not elected a pope in their second or third rounds of balloting, at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. Cardinals voted twice Wednesday in Michelangelo's famed frescoed chapel after a first vote Tuesday in a conclave to elect a successor to Benedict XVI, who stunned the Catholic world last month by becoming the first pope in 600 years to resign. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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** File ** Parents bring their children to school as others protest outside Miramonte Elementary school in Los Angeles Feb. 6, 2012.
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** FILE ** White smoke billows from the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican on April 19, 2005, to announce the election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany as Pope Benedict XVI. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
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The princes of the Roman Catholic Church, including Cardinals Roger Mahony (left) and Timothy Dolan (third from left) of the United States, arrive for a meeting at the Vatican on Monday, March 11, 2013. The cardinals gathered for their final day of talks before the conclave to elect the next pope amid debate over whether the church needs a manager pope to clean up the Vatican's messy bureaucracy or a pastoral pope who can inspire the faithful and make Catholicism relevant again. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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People embrace by the ancient stone circle of Stonehenge, in southern England on the annual Winter Solstice, in this Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, file photo. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)
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Pakistani Christians chant slogans as they burn a tire during a demonstration demanding that the government rebuild their homes after they were burned down following an alleged blasphemy incident, in Islamabad on Sunday, March 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
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FILE - An angry mob reacts after burning Christian houses in Lahore, Pakistan, Saturday, March 9, 2013. Hundreds of people in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore attacked a Christian neighborhood Saturday and set fire to homes after hearing accusations that a Christian man had committed blasphemy against Islam's prophet Mohammed, said a police officer. Placard center reads, " Blasphemer is liable to death." (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)