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 ...

VATICAN CITY — Cardinals failed again Thursday morning to find a successor to Pope Francis, sending black smoke billowing up ...

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

Cardinals began the papal conclave at the Vatican's Sistine Chapel to select a new pope after the death of Pope Francis. What ...

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

It's the first full day of the conclave to find a replacement for Pope Francis, with this morning's inconclusive pair of ...

Black smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel early Thursday, signaling that the cardinals have yet to elect a new pope.

Conclave begins today to elect Pope Francis’s successor. Here’s what time to watch for black or white smoke, how the process ...

For white smoke, a compound of the chemicals potassium chlorate, lactose, and rosin (also known as Greek pitch) is used, ...

Black smoke has again poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the second or third ballots ...

The plume of dark smoke indicates that the 133 cardinal electors sequestered inside the chapel have not reached the required ...