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.

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

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

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

More than 130 cardinals from all over the world are gathering today for the papal conclave, through which a new head of the ...

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

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

The Catholic Church doesn't have a new Pop as the first day of the conclave ends with the cardinals not electing a successor ...

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

Black smoke has poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave ...

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 ...