America also reported that a Vatican source said Pope Francis is stable, but the prognosis is guarded, which means he's not ...

While no clear successor has been named, any baptized Roman Catholic male is technically eligible to be elected pope. However, since 1378 the new pope has been chosen from the College of Cardinals, ...

As Pope Francis, who is 88 years old, continues to battle health issues, the question of what will happen next for the ...

March 13, 2025, marks Francis' 12th anniversary as pope. He holds the ninth longest papacy of the past 200 years.

The process of selecting a new pope has remained largely unchanged for the past 800 years. Known as the Papal Conclave, this system will once again be used when the time comes to choose Pope Francis' ...

Upon the resignation or death of a pope, a group of clergy members known as the College of Cardinals would be called to ...

The process of electing a new pope follows rules and rituals that have been followed, and sometimes tweaked, since the 13th century — when cardinals were first sequestered to prevent any outside ...

The conclave reaches its final stage when a white smoke is released, signalling that a new Pope has been elected. Boyle_67's X formerly Twitter As tradition goes, the people of the Vatican and ...

When aa new pope is elected, instead of burning the ballots to create black smoke, they are burned with chemicals that produce a white smoke to alert the world that a new pope has been chosen.

Once a decision is reached, the ballots are set alight once more, this time with a substance that produces white smoke, indicating to the world that a new Pope has been elected. Prior to the ...

The smoke comes partly from the burning of ballot papers in a special stove in the chapel. These papers will have been used in the election process of a new pope, where cardinals lock themselves ...

Swedish papal metal act Ghost will return with a new album, Skeletá, this April, with a newly anointed pope as frontman ... that with just a few plumes of smoke our PERPETUAL state of anticipatio ...