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

VATICAN CITY — Black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday ... no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave to choose a new leader of the Catholic Church ...

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

COMMENTARY: Not since 1808 when Bishop John Carroll was the bishop of Baltimore — then the only diocese in the United States ...

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