For black smoke, the Vatican uses a mixture of potassium perchlorate, anthracene, and sulphur. The white smoke used to signal ...

When the cardinals enter the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday at the start of conclave, the process of electing a new pope, they ...

Vatican gendarmes and plainclothes Swiss Guards will escort buses that will take cardinals between the residence and the ...

The conclave has been the tried and tested method to select the Pope since 1276 and will see 133 cardinal electors enter the ...

The United States is the home country of 10 of the 133 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope of the Catholic Church ...

As the conclave draws near, I am becoming more nervous and apprehensive about what is ahead of us. But all I am asked to do ...