With a Vatican official calling out ''extra omnes'' and the door to the Sistine Chapel shutting, the conclave to elect Pope Francis' successor has officially begun.

The cardinals participating in the most geographically diverse conclave in the faith’s 2,000-year history took just one round of voting Wednesday evening.

A Cook County Jail guard is continuing to recover after he was brutally attacked by a murder suspect last March.

Black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney Wednesday evening, indicating that no pope was elected on the conclave's 1st ballot.

Cardinals will meet in the Sistine Chapel to decide the next leader of the Catholic Church. White smoke will blow from the chimney once a new Pope is chosen.

A group of 133 Cardinals are making their way from their rooms into the Sistine Chapel where they will have no contact with ...

Catholic cardinals gathered in Vatican City to cast their first vote as part of the conclave to elect the successor to Pope ...

Black smoke billowed out of the Sistine Chapel’s small chimney on Wednesday evening, signalling that cardinals had failed to ...

Black smoke came out of the chimney on the Sistine Chapel, showing that a new pope hasn't been selected yet. Bradley ...

Black smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, signaling that the first vote to elect a new pope ...

Gathering under the soaring frescoes of Renaissance masters and a blanket of intense seclusion, 133 red-robed cardinals made a solemn procession into the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican on Wednesday to ...

In 2013, the Vatican confirmed that their fumata recipes now consist of a clear black smoke recipe: potassium perchlorate ...