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 ...

Black smoke billowed from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel on Thursday (May 8), signalling that the cardinals locked in a ...

With at least three African cardinals in the running to become the next Pope, African Catholics are excited, but remain ...

Thick black smoke billowed Thursday from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in a sign that cardinals again failed to elect a ...

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

At the end of each voting round, black smoke means a new pope has not yet to be selected, while white smoke indicates a new ...

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

On the second day of the conclave at the Vatican, the cardinal electors chose Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new ...

Cardinals began the papal conclave at the Vatican's Sistine Chapel to select a new pope after the death of Pope Francis. What ...

The Vatican announced the election of Pope Leo XIV shortly after white smoke blew from the roof of the Sistine Chapel on ...

The cardinals are shut off from the world for the secretive voting that will result in new leadership for the world's 1.4 ...