Black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday, signalling that no pope had been elected as 133 cardinals opened the secretive, centuries-old ritual to choose a new leader of ...

Cardinals will return to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday to resume voting for a new pope after the first conclave ballot failed to find a winner, sending billowing black smoke through the chapel ...

Cardinals choosing the next leader of the global Catholic Church were locked into the Vatican's Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, marking the formal start of the conclave to elect a successor to Pope ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday, signalling that no pope had been elected as 133 cardinals opened the secretive, centuries-old ritual to ...

Black smoke rose from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican for the second time, indicating the cardinals meeting in the papal conclave were again unable on Thursday morning to agree on ...

ROME - As the cardinals vote in secrecy within the Sistine Chapel, the eyes of the world turn upward—not just to the chimney, but to the seagulls who often steal the show.

Millions may feel involved in the conclave, but only 115 will vote. March 10, 2013— -- When white smoke billows out of the Sistine Chapel's chimney, the centuries-old signal that a new pope ...

March 11, 2013 -- Final adjustments are being made to the Sistine Chapel today before the 115 Roman Catholic cardinals enter for the conclave to choose the next pope. Once there, the doors will be ...

About five hours later, the cardinals assembled for the procession into the Sistine Chapel. Ratzinger, dean of the College of Cardinals, read out an oath for complete secrecy about the voting. Then he ...

The cardinals had entered the Sistine Chapel in pairs, chanting the meditative “Litany of the Saints” as Swiss Guards stood at attention. The hymn implores the saints to help the cardinals ...