Cardinals returned to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday to resume voting for a new pope and crowds flocked back to St. Peter’s Square to await their decision, after the first conclave ballot failed to ...

Black smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney at 11:50am Thursday, indicating the third ballot of the papal conclave, ...

As cardinals gather at the Sistine Chapel to vote for a successor to Pope Francis, there is no single frontrunner, and it ...

The 133 cardinals in the conclave will participate in as many as four rounds of voting a day until a two-thirds majority is ...

The 133 cardinals who entered the conclave failed to reach a two-thirds supermajority of at least 89 votes to elect a new ...

The historic - and secretive - tradition of the papal conclave is taking place to elect Pope Francis' successor.

That year, arranging the funeral and the conclave cost the Vatican some seven million euros, according to a report published ...

They then fold the ballot, hold it up for visibility and carry it to the altar, where a chalice covered by a plate awaits.

The Catholic church's eligible cardinals are behind closed doors in the Sistine Chapel for a secret vote to elect a successor ...

VATICAN CITY — Cardinals are meeting in a secret, sacred conclave for a second day as they seek a new pontiff to follow Pope ...

Rome to select the new pope after Pope Francis died on April 21. Thursday marked the second day of the papal conclave.