Thick black smoke emerged Wednesday from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in a sign that cardinals had failed to elect a new head of the Catholic Church in their first conclave vote. Tens of ...

Cardinals are meeting in a secret, sacred conclave for a second day as they seek a new pontiff to follow Pope Francis.

As billows of black smoke rose from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel Wednesday, several Filipino Catholic pilgrims from ...

In total, 133 cardinals will be voting during this conclave, the most electors ever, with 108 of them being appointed by Pope Francis.

Conclave watching turns out to be a perfect aperitivo activity. Caffè Centrale on the main drag of the Veneto hometown of ...

The first day of the conclave to select a new pope has ended without a successor being named. Black smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, indicating that cardinals failed to find a ...

VATICAN CITY — Cardinals return to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday to resume voting for a new pope after the first conclave ...

Black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday, signalling that no pope had been elected as 133 cardinals ...

It took nearly 440 years after the arrival of Christianity in the Philippines before the first Filipino, Rufino Jiao Santos, joined the College of Cardinals in 1960. Another 52 years passed before ...

Excluded from the conclave to elect a new pope Wednesday — and more broadly from the Church’s entire global priesthood — some ...

The cardinals are participating in the most geographically diverse conclave in the faith’s 2,000-year history.

Forty-eight-hundred-and-four miles separate Vatican City from Chicago's Holy Name Cathedral, but a group of faithful gathered ...