The black smoke signals continued deliberation, while white smoke marks a new pope's election, symbolizing reflection, unity, ...

The new film Conclave surrounds the fictional election of a new pope. Here's how the real-life process works, and how ...

The Vatican revealed Tuesday in a statement how the white and black smoke that rises from the chimney on the Sistine Chapel is made, Henry Fountain of "The New York Times" reports. The smoke ...

We first visited in the summer of 2022, and we went to some of the more classical elements of Rome, like the Villa Medici and ...

Pope Francis, who had a lung removed as a teenager, does not smoke. Vatican staff and pensioners are permitted to buy five cartons of cigarettes every month from a duty-free shop, housed in a ...

With Pope Francis a few weeks away from his 88th birthday, the plotting for his successor is well underway at the Vatican ...

Some work at the Vatican, but most are spread out worldwide ... along with a chemical that makes the smoke black. If the smoke is white, however, the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics have ...