When the cardinals vote, they burn their ballots and send up smoke to signal their decision: white smoke to show they have ...

The cardinals would sit in a hall in a half circle with the dean of the college of cardinals, the Italian Giovanni Battista, ...

A two-day conclave has come to an end with the election of Pope Leo XIV, successor to Pope Francis and the first American ...

The ballot solemnly placed in the urn and even the white smoke after the election of the 'mini' Pope, with ballots burned in ...

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ABC7's Liz Nagy spent almost two weeks reporting from the Vatican as the Catholic Church elected Pope Leo XIV as its next ...