Anticipation gripped the Catholic world Thursday as the cardinals tasked with choosing a new pope prepared to retreat behind ...

The conclave to select the next pope has begun after Catholic cardinals from across the world filed into the Sistine Chapel ...

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

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

Black smoke is pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Black smoke is pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave to choose a new leader of the Catholic Church.

The world continues to watch and wait as 133 cardinals remain sequestered inside the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel as the secret ...

One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are sequestering themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a ...

Excluded from the conclave to elect a new pope Wednesday -- and more broadly from the Church's entire global priesthood -- ...

Cardinal electors who are gathered in Vatican City have failed in their first vote to pick a new pope. Black smoke rose from a chimney above the Sistine Chapel, indicating that the conclave will ...

Among the massive crowds of people waiting for the first round of smoke to emanate from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, ...