Among the regular pilgrims, tourists and assorted onlookers were groups of nuns. There are around 600,000 Catholic nuns around the world, and they dedicate their lives to a variety of religious ...

FOX 5 NY will have a 24/7 LIVE look at the Sistine Chapel. VATICAN CITY - Black smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday afternoon, indicating that the cardinals had not yet reached the ...

VATICAN CITY — Cardinals returned to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday to resume voting for a new pope and crowds flocked back to St. Peter’s Square to await their decision, after the first ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — White smoke is pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, signalling that a pope has been elected to lead the Catholic Church. That means the winner secured at least 89 votes of ...

Pyrotechnic chemistry drives the Vatican’s recipes for the black and white smoke used to announce papal election outcomes ...

Pope Francis has been laid to rest, the conclave has been assembled and, after due deliberation by the participating cardinals, the world at last has seen white smoke wafting from the Sistine Chapel ...

Pope Leo XIV greets Silviu Vexler, president of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Romania, during a ceremony honoring ...

CARDINALS from around the world convened in the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, Rome as the Roman Catholic Church begins the secretive conclave to elect a new p ...

Habemus papam. Crowds in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City erupted in cheers as white smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel ...

Cardinals return to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday to resume voting ... their cellphones surrendered and airwaves around the Vatican jammed to prevent all communications until they find a new ...