Cardinals return to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday to resume voting to elect the 267th pontiff of the Catholic Church. The first two votes of the day failed to find a winner, sending billowing ...

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 ...

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.

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

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

Black smoke pouring from the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday signalled that Roman Catholic cardinals had not selected a new pope on the conclave's first ballot. The cardinals earlier began the ...

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

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

If Thursday afternoon's rounds of voting fail to produce a two-thirds majority, black smoke will billow from the chimney at the Vatican again, at around 7 pm. It will be white if a new pope is elected ...

Rather than soot, the smoke contains microscopic droplets and fine solids that are transparent or white. The result is a ...