The 133 cardinals tasked with electing the next leader of the Catholic Church made their first vote inside the Sistine Chapel ...

Cardinals charged with picking a new pope have taken their oath of secrecy inside the Sistine Chapel before beginning the ...

It's official: a new pope has not been elected on the first day of the papal conclave.

Black smoke rises from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, meaning that cardinals did not elect a new pope on the first day of ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Black smoke appeared from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican on Wednesday, signalling that the 133 Catholic cardinals meeting in a secret conclave failed to ...

Cardinals have handed in their mobile phones and taken oaths of secrecy as they begin the secret Conclave to decide the next ...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, said in a post to X on Wednesday that he and the other North American cardinals will bring the "in ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The great doors of the Sistine Chapel shut Wednesday after the cry of “extra omnes” — Latin for “all out” ...

Cardinals have no contact with the outside world after the master of liturgical ceremonies utters the words “Extra Omnes” the ...

Hundreds of people watched on giant video screens and waited for the first puffs of smoke to learn whether a pope had been ...

No new pope yet. On the first day cardinals gathered to pick the next pontiff, a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel billowed ...