Anticipation gripped the Catholic world Thursday as the cardinals tasked with choosing a new pope prepared to retreat behind ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Black smoke is pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave to choose a new leader of the Catholic Church.

Black smoke rises from the Sistine Chapel chimney meaning no agreement on a new pope after the first round of the conclave, ...

While cardinals this week said they expected a short conclave, it will likely take at least a few rounds of voting.

Dozens of parishioners gathered at San Fernando Cathedral where church leaders spoke on the significance of selecting the ...

Black smoke rose from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, meaning that cardinals did not elect a new pope on the first day of the conclave. They’ll return to the Santa Marta residence, ...

The ballots are burned after each vote and the smoke will emanate from the chimney that was built on top of the Sistine Chapel. Black smoke means a majority has not been reached and the voting will ...

Seminarians on the campus of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul have created their own chimney on top of a building to ...

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With a Vatican official calling out “extra omnes” and the door to the Sistine Chapel shutting, the conclave to elect Pope ...

Black smoke streamed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, signaling that the more than 130 cardinal electors have not come ...

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