More than 130 cardinals will arrive in Vatican City within the week to participate in the upcoming papal conclave, selecting Pope Francis' successor. Though the process is done in secrecy, thousands ...

As the papal conclave continues, onlookers from around the world will watch for smoke in Vatican City, eager for the first update on who will be the next leader of the Catholic Church. On the morning ...

May 8, 2025 Updated Thu., May 8, 2025 at 8:54 a.m. Firefighters install a temporary chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel on May 2 in Vatican City, Vatican. The chimney used to communicate the ...

The election of a pope follows a strict daily schedule inside the Sistine Chapel. Following the start of conclave on May 7, the College of Cardinals are fully sequestered behind locked doors with no ...

The world's attention will soon turn to a chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel as cardinals inside use a once-mysterious recipe to create smoke that signals their progress in choosing a new pope.

For nearly 800 years the Catholic Church has utilised the process of the conclave to elect a new pope. “Conclave” means “with a key”, indicating the cardinal-electors are locked up with a key to ...

Black smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel during the cardinals' conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican on May 7, 2025. After their first vote, 133 cardinal-electors did not ...

VATICAN CITY — 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 choose a new ...

Black smoke rising from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel signals that cardinals failed to elect a new pope during their conclave in the Vatican on May 8, 2025. AP Black smoke appeared from a chimney ...

VATICAN CITY — Black smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday evening, signalling an inconclusive first vote by cardinals locked in the Sistine Chapel in a conclave to elect ...