Black smoke has poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave to choose a new leader of the Catholic Church.

Black smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday (May 7) evening, signaling an inconclusive first vote by cardinals locked in the Sistine Chapel in a conclave to elect a new ...

VATICAN CITY — 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 ...

White smoke poured from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica tolled Thursday after cardinals elected the 267th pope to lead the Catholic Church on the second ...

Catholic cardinals filed into the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday (May 7), before locking themselves away from the world to elect the next pope. El Chapo's former lawyer among those on the ballot to be ...

Pope Leo XIV, right, stands in the Sistine Chapel among cardinals after being elected at the Vatican on May 8, 2025. He ...

This secretive conclave to elect the next pope is being held in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel. What's it like inside and how is it outfitted for this particular gathering? : [POST-BROADCAST ...

The Sistine Chapel was used for the ceremonies of the papal court. Only the most important figures of Vatican City were allowed to participate in these ceremonies. Times have changed since then.

It has been a gull-orious past two days in Vatican City. Moments before white smoke emerged from the Sistine Chapel chimney on Thursday afternoon, all eyes were on a seagull family, entertaining ...

The process is held in strict seclusion inside the Vatican's Sistine Chapel. Voting cardinals, tasked with electing a new pope, will be deprived from communicating with the outside world until the ...