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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Cardinal electors have withdrawn to pray, deliberate and cast votes in secret elections. The proceedingss are set to continue ...

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

Black smoke appeared from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican on Thursday, signalling that cardinals meeting in ...