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

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 ...

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

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

Cardinals in Vatican City failed again to elect a new pope, after two more inconclusive rounds of voting. Black smoke from ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinals failed again Thursday morning to find a successor to Pope Francis, sending black smoke ...

Black smoke from the Sistine Chapel indicates the cardinals have not yet chosen a new Pope. Stay updated on the conclave ...

Black smoke billowed from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel on Thursday (May 8), signalling that the cardinals locked in a ...

Cardinals prepared to cast fresh votes Thursday for the next head of the Catholic Church, after sending up a second round of ...

Thick black smoke billowed Thursday from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in a sign that cardinals again failed to elect a ...