For nearly 800 years the Catholic Church has utilised the process of the conclave to elect a new pope. “Conclave” means “with a key”, indicating the cardinal-electors are locked up with a key to ...

ROME, VATICAN - MARCH 13: Black smoke rises fron the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on March 13, 2013 in the morning of the second day of the conclave. (Photo by Guido MARZILLA/Gamma-Rapho via Getty ...

It’s probably the most-watched smoke in the world: The billows of exhaust unfurl before the watchful eyes of thousands every conclave — the only communication allowed from the cardinals locked inside ...

VATICAN CITY -- The temporary chimney atop the Sistine Chapel released a plume of white smoke on Thursday evening local time, signaling that the 133 cardinals working inside had reached a two-thirds ...

ROME, Italy — When a new pope is needed, the College of Cardinals gather at the Vatican to vote and colored smoke flows out of the Sistine Chapel’s chimney depending on the result — but what does it ...

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Veteran Nollywood actor Kanayo O. Kanayo has called out the Catholic Church for what he describes as an offensive and outdated symbolism tied to the use of “black smoke” during the election process ...