While this process is held in secrecy, the rest of the world is informed on the group's daily decisions by white or ...

Cardinals began the papal conclave at the Vatican's Sistine Chapel to select a new pope after the death of Pope Francis. What ...

Black smoke has billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney after the first round of voting by the College of Cardinals, ...

During their deliberations, the only indications of their progress are the regular plumes of smoke wafting from a freshly ...

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

Following Pope Francis’ death, the Vatican begins the conclave to elect a new pope, with smoke signals from the Sistine ...

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

In a tradition that scholars date to the 19th century, smoke released from a chimney will be colored white if the cardinals ...

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 streamed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday morning in Rome, signaling that the 133 cardinal ...

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

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, has stepped down temporarily as an investigation by United ...