Black smoke has come out of the Sistine Chapel, meaning that a pope has not been selected on the first day of voting.

The highly secretive process of picking a new pope began on Wednesday behind the closed doors of the Sistine Chapel in ...

With the conclave underway, PBS News has a live video of the chimney on the Sistine Chapel as the world waits for white smoke ...

So that means some foods were banned or carefully inspected at previous conclaves, including whole roast chicken, stuffed ...

The doors of the Sistine Chapel were sealed Wednesday as the papal conclave got underway. After three hours and fifteen ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are sequestering themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls ...

Cardinals have no contact with the outside world after the master of liturgical ceremonies utters the words “Extra Omnes” the ...

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

Our Vatican insider reveals the deal-making and hushed conversations that go into electing a new Pope as leading contenders begin to emerge.

Black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday, signaling that no pope had been elected as 133 cardinals opened the secretive, centuries-old ritual to choose a new leader of the ...

Thick black smoke emerged Wednesday (May 7) from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in a sign that cardinals had failed to ...