The smoke signal means the winner secured at least 89 votes of the 133 cardinals participating in the conclave to elect a ...

The Vatican News, the official communications outlet of the Vatican, posted on X on Wednesday that all nonessential personnel had left the Sistine Chapel so the cardinals could vote in private. The ...

The Catholic Church appears to have a new leader. White smoke could be seen billowing from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, ...

Pope Francis has been laid to rest, the conclave has been assembled and, after due deliberation by the participating cardinals, the world at last has seen white smoke wafting from the Sistine Chapel ...

(CN) — White smoke billowed Thursday evening from the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel in Rome, signaling Roman Catholic ...

The world will learn the name of the new pope when he appears on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica in about an hour.

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