The Vatican’s age-old tradition of using smoke signals to announce the outcome of papal elections has received a modern ...

Pyrotechnic chemistry drives the Vatican’s recipes for the black and white smoke used to announce papal election outcomes ...

The Vatican has confirmed that cardinals will meet at St ... one for burning ballots, the other to generate the smoke signals ...

Only one voting session is permitted on the first day. After that, voting sessions occur twice in the morning and twice in ...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Saturday backed a proposed unconditional 30-day ceasefire in the ...

The papal smoke signals are ready. Vatican workers on Friday hoisted a chimney onto the roof of the Sistine Chapel, which ...

The pontiff’s identity will be known shortly, when he appears on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica.

A successor to Pope Francis had been elected. But there will be a short wait before his identity becomes clear.

Stoves have been installed in the Sistine Chapel that will generate smoke, marking the progress of the conclave's mission to choose a new pope.

White smoke was pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney at the Vatican, signalling that a pope has been elected to lead the ...

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