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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

The 133 cardinals tasked with electing the next leader of the Catholic Church had their first vote on Wednesday.

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