Catholic cardinals file into the Sistine Chapel ahead of the conclave on May 7, 2025. 14. The cardinals will have no contact with the outside world as they decide on the next pope.

Cardinals return to the Sistine Chapel to vote for a new pope today. AFP via Getty Images. Mid-morning Thursday, the Vatican television cameras resumed their fixed shot on the Sistine Chapel ...

At 4:30 p.m. (1430 GMT; 10:30 a.m. EDT), the cardinals will walk into the Sistine Chapel, chanting the meditative "Litany of the Saints" and the Latin hymn "Veni Creator," imploring the saints and ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — 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 ...

The cardinals don’t have to take a first vote on Wednesday, but they are expected to. Assuming no winner is found, the Vatican said black smoke could be expected out of the Sistine Chapel ...

Cardinals are returning to the Sistine Chapel to continue voting for a new pope. The first conclave ballot failed to find a winner after a long voting session, sending black smoke through the ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday began the secretive, centuries-old ritual to elect a successor to Pope ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday, signalling that no pope had been elected as 133 cardinals opened the secretive, centuries-old ritual to ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday, signalling that no pope had been elected as 133 cardinals opened the secretive, centuries-old ritual to ...

Meryl Espiniero from New York holds her dog Romeo Valentino at St. Peter's square where people wait to see smoke pour from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel where 133 cardinals are gathering on ...

Cardinals return to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday to resume voting for a new pope after the first conclave ballot failed to find a winner, sending billowing black smoke through the chapel chimney ...