While this process is held in secrecy, the rest of the world is informed on the group's daily decisions by white or ...

For a bit more than a century, the cardinals have signaled their progress by sending colored smoke up the chapel chimney. Black smoke signifies a vote didn’t produce a pope, and white smoke ...

While these meetings are held in secrecy, the rest of the world is notified of the group's daily decisions by white or black-colored smoke funneled from the top of the Sistine Chapel. Black smoke ...

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 ...

After that fiasco, they tried smoke bombs, which made a clearer color but filled the chapel with smoke, NBC News reported. They also tried military flares and chemical additives that sickened the ...