Here's how the conclave creates black and white smoke and why the Catholic Church began using them to signal whether a new ...

The 133 cardinals tasked with electing the next leader of the Catholic Church had their first vote on Wednesday.

Multiple rounds of voting likely will be required before a candidate emerges with the two-thirds majority required to become ...

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Cardinals have returned to the Sistine Chapel for the second day of the secretive process to elect the next leader of the ...

A new pope will be selected when a candidate gets a two-thirds-plus-one majority vote by the cardinal electors. White smoke ...

After the ballots are pierced, they are burned in a cylindrical stove at the end of the voting session. Black smoke from the ...

How long does it take to choose a pope? In this case, only two days. The Vatican doesn’t publish official data on the number ...

By Joshua McElwee, Crispian Balmer and Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Black smoke billowed from a chimney atop the ...

Black smoke billowed over the Vatican on Wednesday to signal that no candidate received the required two-thirds majority of ...

As cardinals gather at the Sistine Chapel to begin voting for a successor to Pope Francis, there is no single frontrunner, ...

The Catholic Church's cardinal electors entered the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican to choose a successor to Pope Francis, as ...