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

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

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

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

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

The Catholic Church's cardinal electors are locked inside the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican to choose a successor to Pope ...

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

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

There is no new Pope. Yet. Hours later than expected, black smoke was seen blowing out of the chimney of the Sistine Chapel ...

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

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