Black smoke has poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave to choose a new leader of the Catholic Church.

VATICAN CITY — Cardinals returned to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday to resume voting for a new pope and crowds flocked back to St. Peter’s Square to await their decision, after the first ...

A seagull appeared on the roof of the Sistine Chapel just moments before its chimney began billowing ... When the smoke rose soon after — signaling the College of Cardinals had chosen a ...

NPR secured one of the last public tours of the Sistine Chapel before it closes for the Catholic ... FRAYER: And with that, three hours after we arrived and well prepped by Airoldi, we're ushered ...

When black smoke finally issued from the Sistine Chapel chimney just after 8pm on Wednesday evening ... acts of the conclave drama play out before their eyes. No one expected anything other ...

The Vatican Closes the Sistine Chapel ... after a funeral in St. Peter's Square that gathered world leaders and hundreds of thousands of others, and a nine-day period of mourning is continuing ...

A seagull appeared on the roof of the Sistine Chapel just moments before its chimney began billowing ... When the smoke rose soon after — signaling that the College of Cardinals had chosen ...

Cardinals returned to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday to resume voting for a new pope and crowds flocked back to St. Peter's Square to await their decision, after the first conclave ballot failed ...

The conclave will be held in the Sistine Chapel, under a ceiling of Michelangelo's frescoes. This week, I snagged one of the last tickets to go inside that famous chapel before the College of ...