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

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

By Joshua McElwee, Crispian Balmer and Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Black smoke billowed from a chimney atop the ...

A new pope will be selected when a candidate gets a two-thirds-plus-one majority vote by the cardinal electors. White smoke ...

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

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Saturday backed a proposed unconditional 30-day ceasefire in the ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...