LUBBOCK, Texas — St. Benedict’s Chapel prepared hot meals every day for the homeless, working poor and the food insecure to ...

For white smoke, a compound of the chemicals potassium chlorate, lactose, and rosin (also known as Greek pitch) is used, while potassium perchlorate, anthracene, and sulfur are used for the black ...

Benedict's most notable change to the original ... Black smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney means no decision; white smoke signals the cardinals have chosen a pope and that he has accepted.

The oath-taking is being held in the Pauline Chapel at the Vatican for all those ... document that remains largely in force, though Pope Benedict XVI amended it twice before he resigned in 2013.

Pope Benedict XVI was elected in 2005 in two days ... Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica before gathering in the Sistine Chapel. Until a successor is chosen, they will sequester behind the Renaissance ...

The cardinals enter the chapel singing, and take a vow to keep ... a German cardinal accidentally spilled the beans about the newly elected Benedict before he could be announced.

The College of Cardinals began the secretive voting process of choosing a new pope on Wednesday -- and FOX 5 NY will have a ...

HIALEAH, Fla. (AP) — Twice a week, Luisa Arguello and her husband spend from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. praying in the perpetual adoration chapel at St. Benedict Catholic Church, tucked on a quiet palm-fringed ...

Benedict stepped down from the papacy on February ... the white smoke emitting from the Sistine Chapel. That smoke extends from the voting rounds the cardinals embark on, with the ballots burned ...