At the end of each voting round, black smoke means a new pope has not yet to be selected, while white smoke indicates a new ...

Curators in the music mecca have begun the painstaking process of saving a trove of 75,000 photographs. The images capture ...

Here's how the conclave creates black and white smoke and why the Catholic Church began using them to signal whether a new pope has been elected.

Photographer and writer Austin Bryant said his Martha's Vineyard exhibit, 'Where They Still Remain,' tells stories of Black, ...

(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) Reverend Ajani K. Gibson, pastor of St. Peter Claver, a Catholic Church in the 7th Ward ...

The election for a new pope continues as black smoke above the Sistine Chapel signals that the cardinals have cast their ...

some individuals involved in conclave proceedings were seen in black and purple vestments. Colors often represent the ...

Black smoke has emerged from the Sistine Chapel after Cardinals held the first vote to select a new pope on the first day of ...

Black smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday evening, signaling an inconclusive first vote by ...

For white smoke, a compound of the chemicals potassium chlorate, lactose, and rosin (also known as Greek pitch) is used, ...

Robert Prevost has been elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. The Chicago-born ...