Vatican workers have installed the simple stove in the Sistine Chapel where ballots will be burned during the upcoming ...

Vatican workers have installed the simple stove in the Sistine Chapel where ballots will be burned during the upcoming conclave to elect a new pope. The Holy See released a video on Saturday of the ...

Firefighters have installed the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel which will emit white smoke to signal the election of a new ...

Preparations for the conclave to find a new pope accelerated Friday with the installation of the chimney out of the Sistine ...

A chimney was seen being installed on the Sistine Chapel as the Vatican prepared for the conclave to select the new pope. The ...

The white smoke came out of the chimney on the fifth ballot on March 13, 2013, and Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was ...

Cardinals have no contact with the outside world after the master of liturgical ceremonies utters the words “Extra Omnes” the Latin phrase for “all out,” to ask all those present except the cardinal ...

This is the closed-door meeting of the cardinal electors to choose the new pope in the Sistine Chapel. Its name, literally ...

The death of a pope starts a centuries-old ritual involving sacred oaths by the cardinals electing a successor, the piercing ...

Health and animal welfare concerns fuel Europe’s continued ban on chlorine-washed poultry despite U.S. trade pressures.

Scrutiny over security The US has a vast network of military bases across Europe, with some 80,000 service members deployed there, down from a 20-year peak of 105,000 at the time of Russia’s ...