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

At the end of each voting round, black smoke means a new pope has not yet to be selected, while white smoke indicates a new ...

The 133 voting cardinals were again unable to elect a successor to Pope Francis, during the first round of voting on the ...

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

Conclave begins today to elect Pope Francis’s successor. Here’s what time to watch for black or white smoke, how the process ...

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

The plume of dark smoke indicates that the 133 cardinal electors sequestered inside the chapel have not reached the required ...

Cardinals resumed their voting in the secret conclave, having already failed to choose a new pope in the first round of ...

Paolo Cabrera, 40, from the Philippines, arrived early at the Vatican with his wife, Cynthia Cabrera, to secure a spot as ...

Black smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel this evening, signalling an inconclusive first vote by cardinals ...

Thick black smoke billowed Thursday from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in a sign that cardinals again failed to elect a ...

For white smoke, a compound of the chemicals potassium chlorate, lactose, and rosin (also known as Greek pitch) is used, ...