Anticipation gripped the Catholic world Thursday as the cardinals tasked with choosing a new pope prepared to retreat behind ...

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

The ballots are burned after each vote and the smoke will emanate from the chimney that was built on top of the Sistine Chapel. Black smoke means a majority has not been reached and the voting will ...

Cardinals returned to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday to resume voting for a new pope and crowds flocked back to St. Peter's ...

Catholic cardinals are returning to the Sistine Chapel for a second day of voting to try and elect a new pope.

Vatican firefighters have installed the iconic chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, a key step ahead of the May 7 conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor. Black smoke = no pope yet; white smoke = a new ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Black smoke again pours from Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope elected after second or third ballots.

Black smoke again pours from Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope elected after second or third ballots.

The cardinals can vote twice Thursday morning and twice in the afternoon. If no one collects a two-thirds majority, the ...

Some of the 133 voting cardinals had said they expected a short conclave to replace Pope Francis. But it will still likely take a few rounds of voting.

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