The crowd in St. Peter’s Square erupted in cheers. The name will be announced later, when a top cardinal utters the words ...

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 ...

The Sistine Chapel is ready for the papal conclave. Front-runners such as Parolin and Tagle are losing momentum amid a ...

Cardinals failed again Thursday morning to find a successor to Pope Francis, sending black smoke billowing up through the ...

The black smoke confirmed the 133 cardinal electors sequestered inside had not reached the required two-thirds majority — at ...

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

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

White smoke is pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, signalling that a pope has been elected to lead the Catholic Church ...

White smoke pours from the Sistine Chapel chimney, signaling a pope has been elected to lead the Catholic Church.

The cardinals are voting inside the Sistine Chapel, but the seagulls have the ... Smoke had yet to rise from the chimney as the sun began to set in Rome. A new pope cannot be elected until ...