As a fireworks expert tests the Vatican's contemporary system for "holy smoke," Catholic cardinals mull their divergent ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 Catholic cardinals are beginning the ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals began the centuries-old ritual to ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday, signalling that no pope had been ...

As a fireworks expert tests the Vatican's contemporary system for "holy smoke," Catholic cardinals mull their divergent ...

Black smoke from the Sistine Chapel at the ... slated as one of the emerging front-runners to lead the Catholic Church. As Sweden is a predominately Protestant nation with Catholics making up ...

Black smoke is again pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating that no pope was elected on second or third ...

Black smoke ... like Mongolia, Sweden, and Tonga—places that had never before had a cardinal. His appointments emphasized a pastoral, globally diverse vision of the Church and have added a ...

Cardinals returned to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday to resume voting for a new pope and crowds flocked back to St. Peter's ...

Black and white plumes puffed from canisters ... noting the example of the Lutheran Church in Sweden, which he said now has "more female ministers than male." "So that's one of our tasks ...