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

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

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 ...

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

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

Black smoke billowed over the Vatican on Wednesday to signal that no candidate received the required two-thirds majority of ...

The Catholic Church's cardinal electors entered the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican to choose a successor to Pope Francis, as ...

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

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

The Catholic Church doesn't have a new Pop as the first day of the conclave ends with the cardinals not electing a successor ...