The 133 cardinals eligible to participate in the secretive process convened behind closed doors at the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday to begin voting for the successor to Pope Francis.

so that there can be no doubt as to whether the smoke is white or black – something that had caused confusion in the past.

The results were announced with white smoke in St. Peter's Square Thursday ... Louisiana Creole expert Jari Honora has traced Prevost's ancestry to the Black community of New Orleans.

While this process is held in secrecy, the rest of the world is informed on the group's daily decisions by white or black-colored smoke funneled from the top of the Sistine Chapel. Black smoke ...

Tradition holds that black smoke indicates the cardinals have not yet agreed on a new leader, while white smoke signals that a new Pope has been elected. But what kind of smoke is it exactly?

In a tradition that scholars date to the 19th century, smoke released from a chimney will be colored white if the cardinals have made a decision, or black if they remain deadlocked. By Elisabetta ...

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