White smoke: New pope elected
White smoke billowed from a Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday to show that a new pope has been elected to replace the frail Benedict XVI as leader of the world’s 1.2 billon Catholics.
White smoke billowed from a Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday to show that a new pope has been elected to replace the frail Benedict XVI as leader of the world’s 1.2 billon Catholics.
With no pope, a sea gull is stealing the show at the papal conclave.
Filipino Catholics should not kid themselves that the next Pope will be their countryman in the person of Luis Cardinal Tagle.
Black smoke is billowing from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, meaning Roman Catholic cardinals have not elected a pope in their second or third rounds of balloting.
Catholics gathered from the early morning in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday for the first full day of a conclave to elect a new pope, saying they wanted a compassionate leader who would bring hope to the world.
Cardinals went Wednesday into a second day of conclave behind Vatican walls to elect a pope, with all eyes on a chimney that will signal when there is a new leader for the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics.
From Pius to Clement, Hilarius to Simplicius, papal names from down the centuries are inextricably linked to the brilliant or wretched legacies of the men who have ruled the Vatican.
Retired pope Benedict XVI is gone but far from forgotten as cardinals begin voting for candidates to replace him, with his personal secretary Georg Gaenswein one of the last to leave the Sistine Chapel before the start of the conclave.
A man who epitomizes Jesus and attracts people with a special sense of charm.
The election of a pope follows a series of choreographed rules and rituals that have been tweaked over the centuries ever since the term “conclave” or “with a key” was used in the 13th century to describe the process of locking up the cardinals until they have chosen a new pope.
Black smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel chimney on Tuesday, signaling that cardinals had failed on their first vote of the papal conclave to choose a new leader for the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics and their troubled church.
The conclave to elect a new Pope began on Tuesday at the Vatican. The voting process follows a set ritual every day until the Catholic Church has a new leader.
The heavy wooden door to the Sistine Chapel has been closed and locked, signaling the start of the conclave to elect a new pope to succeed Benedict XVI, with the odds favoring another Western conservative as pope.
