Black smoke has funnelled out of the Sistine Chapel, signalling that the first vote to appoint a successor to the late Pope ...

Cardinals return to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday to resume voting for a new pope after the first conclave ballot failed to ...

The election of the new pope is the most secretive democratic process in the world, with even its name - from the Latin 'cum clave', or 'with key' vividly conveying its clandestine nature ...

White smoke emerged from the Sistine Chapel chimney, meaning the 133 cardinals had reached a two-thirds majority, or 89 ...

Mass was held in St. Peter’s Basilica hours before 133 cardinals began the conclave to select the man who will replace Pope Francis as the next pontiff.

A new pope has been elected after white smoke was seen rising from the Sistine Chapel chimney. The colour of the smoke ...

Robert Francis Prevost, the first American pope, held his first mass in the Sistine Chapel Friday morning. It comes after he was selected by the papal conclave to take over as leader of the 1.4 ...

Wednesday ended with black smoke streaming from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, signaling that the cardinals had not chosen a new pontiff to succeed the late Pope Francis. As the conclave began, St ...

On the ceiling of the chapel where the cardinals elected Pope Leo XIV is Michelangelo’s kaleidoscopic signifier of a time when Francis’s vision of an inclusive church would have seemed not radical at ...

Pope Leo XIV will lead a private mass from the Sistine Chapel later this morning, marking his first engagement since his ...

Guided tours to the basilica are suspended as access is via the Sistine Chapel. Pope Francis requested to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, a majestic UNESCO-designated sanctuary ...

Image: White smoke rises from the chimney on the Sistine Chapel indicating that Pope Francis had been elected in 2013. Pic: Reuters What does it mean for tourists? Many visitors to the surrounding ...