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

Catholic cardinals gather and sequester themselves in the Vatican for the start of a conclave to elect a new pope.

White smoke means a new pope has been chosen, while black smoke signals that a two-thirds majority vote has not yet been reached.

Nearly 200 cardinals have descended on St. Peter’s Basilica for the conclave — one of them will emerge as the next head of the Roman Catholic Church, the largest branch of the world’s largest religion ...

Sister Ngalula, a Congolese thelogian, says more women should lead the Catholic Church ...

Black smoke again billowed out of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, the second day of the conclave, indicating that no new ...

While the cardinals are known to wear their scarlet red attire, some individuals involved in conclave proceedings were seen ...

When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio emerged onto the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica after the conclave of March 2013, few ...