At the end of each voting round, black smoke means a new pope has not yet to be selected, while white smoke indicates a new ...

Here's how the conclave creates black and white smoke and why the Catholic Church began using them to signal whether a new pope has been elected.

For white smoke, a compound of the chemicals potassium chlorate, lactose, and rosin (also known as Greek pitch) is used, ...

Pope Leo XIV has promised to make the Catholic Church a balm for the world’s “dark nights ... adorned in simple white and gold clothes. He also warned that Jesus cannot be “reduced ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Leo XIV on Friday celebrated his first Mass in the Sistine Chapel where he was elected less ...

As the first -ever Pope to hail from the U.S., Robert Prevost's American sports ties quickly became a point of global conversation after he was appointed Pope Leo XIV. As a Chicago native, Prevost ...

Rather than sitting dead center in its galaxy like most supermassive black holes, this one was thousands of light-years away from the core — 2,600, in fact. What's more, there is another ...

In the United States, it comes as the Trump administration has blocked mostly non-white refugee admissions from the rest of the world ... times the wealth of the Black majority, according to ...

ope Leo said on Friday he hoped that his election can help the Catholic Church bring light to the "dark nights of this world" as he delivered ... Thursday evening when white smoke billowed from ...