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

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

No pope was elected after a first ballot of the papal conclave on Wednesday, as black smoke billowed out of a chimney of the ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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