The world's attention will soon turn to a chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel as cardinals inside use a once-mysterious recipe to create smoke that signals their progress in choosing a new pope.

VATICAN CITY >> Black smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel today, signalling an inconclusive first vote by cardinals locked in the Sistine Chapel in a conclave to elect a new pope to ...

First vote shows no pope elected yet, as expected Cardinals took secrecy oaths before start of conclave Voting takes place in the Sistine Chapel, cut off from world Progressives and traditionalists ...