Smoke signals have occurred at mid-morning, noon, mid-afternoon and evening. The longest conclave took three years.

Several foundations have donated $1.5 million to help rebuild after arson gutted a historic Black church that played an ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday, signalling that no pope had been elected as 133 cardinals opened the secretive, centuries-old ritual to choose a ...

VATICAN CITY — Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United ...

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Live updates: Black smoke signals no pope named in today's first conclave ... "outside world." Before voting, the cardinals discuss the needs and challenges facing the Catholic Church.

“That’s the legacy of our church.” Founded in 1838 and part of the nation’s first independent Black denomination, the congregation laid the building’s cornerstone in 1881. AME churches ...

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Africans are hoping one of their own could become the first Black pope ... including the Church body that promotes social justice, human rights and world peace.