Pyrotechnic chemistry drives the Vatican’s recipes for the black and white smoke used to announce papal election outcomes ...

The assembled cardinals vote up to four times a day, while crowds gather in St Peter’s Square to wait for the white smoke that signals the Conclave has selected a successor to Pope Francis ...

Black smoke billowed over the Vatican on Wednesday to signal that no candidate received ... Pope Francis was elected on the second day of the 2013 conclave. While just a single vote will be ...

Smoke signals have been used for communication for ... particular patterns of smoke," Johnson wrote. Cardinals of the conclave have been burning ballots since at least 1417, according to the ...

The doors of the Sistine Chapel were sealed Wednesday as the papal conclave got underway. After three hours and fifteen minutes, black smoke billowed from the chimney above the chapel, signaling the ...

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Black smoke has risen from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel for the second time, meaning cardinals in the conclave have not ...

Italy’s Pietro Parolin leads odds on the Polymarket and Kalshi betting platforms, while Luis Antonio Tagle of the Philippines ...

Simply put, a conclave is the assembly of cardinals that elects a pope. The word itself comes from the Latin "com" and "clavis," meaning "together" and "key," respectively – highlighting the absolute, ...

THE first ballot of the conclave to elect the 267th Pope has ended without a new pontiff, as black smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney at 9 p.m. Wedn ...

VATICAN CITY — Black smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday evening, signalling an inconclusive first vote by cardinals locked in the Sistine Chapel in a conclave to ...

Advocates for women’s ordination sent pink smoke signals Wednesday over the Vatican to demand that women be allowed to be priests and participate in a conclave. Even the White House got involved ...