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 ...

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

Multiple rounds of voting likely will be required before a candidate emerges with the two-thirds majority required to become ...

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In 2013, the Vatican confirmed that their fumata recipes now consist of a clear black smoke recipe: potassium perchlorate ...

The chances the cardinals would agree on a new leader in their first vote were vanishingly remote, so today’s result reveals ...

Black smoke has emerged from the Sistine Chapel after Cardinals held the first vote to select a new pope on the first day of ...

For the second time since the papal conclave began, black smoke rose from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, signaling that ...

Black smoke has poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave ...

No pope has been selected yet as black smoke rises from Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. A bishop in Las Vegas explains what's ...

Cardinals began the papal conclave at the Vatican's Sistine Chapel to select a new pope after the death of Pope Francis. What ...

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