Black smoke billowed over the Vatican on Wednesday to signal that no candidate received the required two-thirds majority of ...

Smoke signals have occurred at mid-morning, noon, mid-afternoon and evening. The longest conclave took three years.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Black smoke appeared from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican on Thursday, signalling that cardinals meeting in a secret conclave did not elect a new pope during ...

Cardinals vote again after black smoke signals no pope chosen on first day - The assembled cardinals vote up to four times a day, while crowds gather in St Peter’s Square to wait for the white smoke t ...

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.

The cardinals are shut off from the world for the secretive voting that will result in new leadership for the world's 1.4 ...

On the afternoon of Thursday, May 8, white smoke from the Sistine Chapel's chimney billowed into the sky, prompting waves of ...

Only one voting session is permitted on the first day. After that, voting sessions occur twice in the morning and twice in the afternoon until a two-thirds majority has been reached for a candidate.

Vatican workers hoisted a chimney onto the roof of the Sistine Chapel, which will be used in burning the ballots for the conclave that will elect a successor to Pope Francis.

The world's attention will soon turn to a chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel as cardinals inside use a once-mysterious recipe to create smoke that signals ... During the conclave to elect ...

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Black smoke appeared from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican on Wednesday, signalling that the 133 Catholic ...