Odds-makers likely had an easier time 20 years ago, when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger stepped onto the balcony overlooking St.

The conclave on Thursday elected a new pope after white smoke was seen rising from the Sistine Chapel, but the new pope has ...

The conclave to elect a new pope has begun, but how long will it last? Here's the longest and shortest a conclave has lasted in history.

The Sistine Chapel is named after Pope Sixtus IV ... The last conclave was held in March 2013 following Pope Benedict XVI's resignation, the first of its kind in more than 600 years, and resulted ...

Black smoke from Vatican chimney signals Cardinals have not chosen new pope - Some 133 Cardinals began their secretive conclave on Wednesday with a first round of voting due in the afternoon ...

This selection comes after two days of conclave in the Sistine Chapel, tying the modern record for the fastest selection of a ...

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 cardinals will take their oaths in the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, before they cast their first ... elections in a 1996 document that remains largely in force, though Pope Benedict XVI amended it ...

Black smoke pours from Sistine Chapel after Cardinals fail to elect pope - The smoke signals that the 133 cardinals have voted but haven’t reached a two-thirds consensus required to elect a successor ...

That's more than any nation except Italy, home to 17 of the electors who will gather at the Vatican's Sistine Chapel on ...

When Robert Prevost was elected pope this week, he chose one of the most popular papal names. The lives of the Pope Leos who ...