And once the election process for a new pope begins, gatherers will turn upward each day, waiting for black or white smoke to fill the sky. Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21. He was 88 years old ...

If you saw big plumes of black smoke in southern Indiana, it was coming from a building in Charlestown.WLKY NewsChopper spotted the smoke Tuesday afternoon over an industrial complex off ...

If no pope is chosen, the ballots are mixed with cartridges containing potassium perchlorate, anthracene (a component of coal tar), and sulfur to produce black smoke. But if there is a winner ...

The Vatican uses black smoke to signal that a round of voting has been unsuccessful, while white smoke means that a new Pope has been elected by the cardinals. The tradition of using smoke to ...