Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at age 88 after complications from a stroke and heart failure. Cardinals under 80 will vote in a closed conclave at the Sistine Chapel to elect the next pope. Black ...

Catholic cardinal electors from six continents gathered Wednesday inside the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican for the 2025 conclave to select a new pope. After the first round of voting, black smoke was ...

This photograph shows black smoke rising from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel signalling that cardinals failed to elect a new pope in the first ballot of their conclave in the Vatican on May 7, 2025 ...

Black smoke rising from the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday and again Thursday morning indicated that a new pope had not yet been chosen to replace Pope Francis. Using smoke to communicate to the ...

VATICAN CITY — The first day of a secretive Vatican conclave ended Tuesday with black smoke billowing out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, signaling that cardinals had yet to decide on a new pope. Smoke ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) _ Black smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel's chimney Monday evening, signaling that the cardinals sequestered inside for the first papal conclave of the new millennium failed to ...

New Pope LIVE: Cardinal Robert Prevost elected first North American pontiff and will be called Pope Leo XIV - Pope Leo XIV emerged onto the balcony of St Peter's Basilica where he addressed jubilant ...

In the third ballot of the second day of the Conclave, the cardinals have chosen the new Shepherd of the Church, the 267th. There was black smoke in the first yesterday. Also in the second this ...

As the world mourns the life and legacy of Pope Francis on Monday, April 21, many are now wondering who will become the next leader of the Catholic Church? Following his funeral, a papal conclave will ...