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A new pope has been chosen, indicated by white smoke that bellowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney on Thursday afternoon.
Who is the new pope? And when is the name revealed? Here's what we know after white smoke emerges over the Vatican.
In a tradition that scholars date to the 19th century, smoke released from a chimney will be colored white if the cardinals ...
It took just two days for the College of Cardinals to elect a new Pope less than a month after the death of Francis ...
All eyes were on the smoke billowing from the Sistine Chapel on May 8 as 133 cardinals voted to select the successor to Pope ...
Pyrotechnic chemistry drives the Vatican’s recipes for the black and white smoke used to announce papal election outcomes ...
Habemus papam, and habemus a new Lorde tour while we’re at it. Almost simultaneously with white smoke emerging from the ...
A mother and baby seagull shared a cute moment on the roof of the Sistine Chapel as white smoke came out of the chimney ...
The Roman Catholic cardinals gathered at the Vatican in Rome have chosen a new pope to lead the church’s 1.4 billion faithful ...
White smoke has emerged from the chimney above the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, signaling that a new pope has been chosen ...
How does the Vatican make white smoke? - The outcome of the secretive papal election is announced through smoke, but how do ...
The white smoke has appeared, the people screamed, and now we wait for the new Pontiff to come out onto the balcony. Here's ...