Ballots are burned in the process, but the smoke seen by the world is created using another stove, the Vatican Information ...

Cardinals have no contact with the outside world after the master of liturgical ceremonies utters the words “Extra Omnes” the ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A conclave is the centuries-old election of a pope that derives its name from the Italian “con clave” ...

But if there is a winner, the burning ballots are mixed with potassium chlorate, lactose and chloroform resin to produce the white smoke. Bells also are rung to further signal there is a new pope.

A North Pole man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly sexually abusing two minors in 2016 and 2021. Beniah Marchildon, 25, faces charges of felony first-degree sexual abuse of a minor, felony second ...