MANILA – The Manila Cathedral in Intramuros, Manila will hold a weeklong exhibit of photos showing scenes from last month’s ...

A historian, religious scholars, and the students who staged a Renaissance-era conclave reflect on the significance of the ...

This photograph shows black smoke rising from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel signalling that cardinals failed to elect a new pope in the first ballot of their conclave in the Vatican on May 7 ...

The Vatican conclave will continue on Thursday with as many as four more rounds of voting. A two-thirds majority of the 133 cardinals is required to select a new leader for the world’s 1.4 ...

3 p.m. ET: Black smoke has risen from the Sistine Chapel chimney, ... ahead of the conclave, on St Peter's Square in the Vatican, on May 7, 2025.

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 ...

The papal conclave at the Vatican that will decide the next pope after the death of Pope Francis has the world watching livestreams of the thing that will tell us what's going on: a chimney.. It's ...

Firefighters install the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel, with the statue of Saint Paul in the foreground, in The Vatican, on May 2, 2025. The conclave begins on May 7, when a record 133 ...

Firefighters install the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel in The Vatican, on May 2, 2025. The conclave begins on May 7, when a record 133 cardinals -- those under the age of 80 who are ...

Vatican chimney installed for conclave. VATICAN CITY -- Preparations for the conclave to find a new pope accelerated Friday with the installation of the chimney out of the Sistine Chapel that will ...

Vatican chimney installed for conclave. VATICAN CITY -- Preparations for the conclave to find a new pope accelerated Friday with the installation of the chimney out of the Sistine Chapel that will ...