The traditions include oaths of secrecy, paper ballots and white smoke from a chimney of the Sistine Chapel. Scenes from the proceedings following the death of popes in the 20th and 21st centuries.

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The pope's death initiates a centuries-old process of rituals and traditions that culminates with a conclave, a gathering of the Church's current 135 Cardinal Electors who are sealed inside the ...