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

VATICAN CITY — Cardinals return to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday to resume voting for a new pope after the first conclave ...

The smoke billowed out at 9 p.m. Wednesday, some four hours after 133 cardinals solemnly entered the Sistine Chapel, took ...

As the papal conclave is set to begin to elect a new pope, the eyes of the world are on the Sistine Chapel, which will hold ...

Vatican workers have installed the simple stove in the Sistine Chapel where ballots will be burned during the upcoming ...

After every two rounds of voting in the Sistine Chapel, the ballots of the cardinals are burned in a special furnace to ...

The cardinals opened the secretive, centuries-old ritual Wednesday afternoon, participating in a rite more theatrical than ...

The conclave to select the next pope has begun after Catholic cardinals from across the world filed into the Sistine Chapel ...

With a Vatican official calling out “extra omnes” and the door to the Sistine Chapel shutting, the conclave to elect Pope ...

The door to the Sistine Chapel closed as the cardinals begin the process of choosing the new pope. The conclave starting ...