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A bell is also rung, part of the ritual introduced when Pope Benedict XVI was elected, which confirms the smoke is white and ...

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More than 250,000 people paid their respects to the pontiff at his funeral in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican said ...

There are 252 cardinals worldwide, and as a body, they are in charge of the Holy See ... to produce black smoke. But if there is a winner, the burning ballots are mixed with potassium chlorate, ...

Pope Francis was the world's greatest spiritual leader in Catholic Christianity. After his passing, Catholic followers around ...

And once the election process for a new pope begins, gatherers will turn upward each day, waiting for black or white smoke to fill ... according to The Holy See's College of Cardinals Dashboard.