Crowds of people gathered to enter St. Peter's Square in Vatican City for day two of the papal conclave on Thursday.

Cardinals to vote again after black smoke signals no pope chosen on first day - The assembled cardinals vote up to four times ...

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 firefighters have installed the iconic chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, a key step ahead of the May 7 conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor. Black smoke = no pope yet; white smoke = a new ...

Catholic cardinals are returning to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday for a second day of voting to try and elect a new pope.

The cardinals can vote twice Thursday morning and twice in the afternoon. If no one collects a two-thirds majority, the ...

The 133 cardinals are expected to vote again in the morning after spending the night sequestered at the Vatican residences.

Papal conclaves have featured calls of election fraud and bribery so gauche that riches were wheeled in on donkey carts.

The great doors of the Sistine Chapel shut Wednesday after the cry of “extra omnes” — Latin for “all out” — and 133 cardinals ...

The crowd outside St. Peter's Basilica erupted as black smoke began to seep from the Sistine Chapel Wednesday night.

Cardinals are meeting in a secret, sacred conclave for a second day as they seek a new pontiff to follow Pope Francis.