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Cardinals are returning to the Sistine Chapel on day two of the conclave - the secret process to elect a new pope. Black smoke emerged from the Sistine Chapel chimney at 8pm on Wednesday ...
Cardinals attend a final Mass celebrated by cardinals inside St. Peter's Basilica before the conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025.
Pope Leo XIV (formerly Robert Francis Prevost) and other cardinals adhered to many restrictions while inside the conclave. Here's everything they were forbidden to use—or eat—during the papal ...
The shortest conclave on record was in 1503, when it took the cardinals only 10 hours to choose Pope Pius III as the new pontiff. The longest conclave on record took nearly three years.
The conclave diet was not made with gourmands in mind. Amid the voting to find Pope Francis’ successor, the 135 Catholic cardinals sequestered in the Vatican are not exactly having meals fit for ...
People watch a screen in St .Peter's Square showing cardinals inside the Sistine Chapel, on the first day of the conclave to elect the next pope, at the Vatican, May 7, 2025. Kevin Coombs/REUTERS ...
As the sun set over St Peter's Square, black smoke began to rise from the temporary chimney of the Sistine Chapel. A new pope had not been elected on day one of the Catholic papal conclave. From ...
The Catholic cardinals meeting for the conclave are locked in the Sistine Chapel — one of the grandest buildings in the Western world. But their meals are decidedly less elegant. The food at the ...
The cardinals are sealed inside the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City for the conclave to elect a new pope — but no winner emerged Wednesday night as black smoke billowed up from the Sistine Chapel ...