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 ...

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

On the afternoon of Thursday, May 8, white smoke from the Sistine Chapel's chimney billowed into the sky, prompting waves of ...

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

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

The cardinals are shut off from the world for the secretive voting that will result in new leadership for the world's 1.4 ...

The doors of the Sistine Chapel were sealed Wednesday as the papal conclave got underway. After three hours and fifteen ...

Italy’s Pietro Parolin leads odds on the Polymarket and Kalshi betting platforms, while Luis Antonio Tagle of the Philippines ...

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

Black smoke appeared from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican on Thursday, signalling that cardinals meeting in ...

Only one voting session is permitted on the first day. After that, voting sessions occur twice in the morning and twice in ...