Black smoke again billowed out of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, the second day of the conclave, indicating that no new ...

Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi walking through the Vatican's St Anna gate before the conclave.(AP: Francisco Seco) People were seen gathered in prayer in ... holds a sign for peace in St Peter's ...

as the US pushes for a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. There had been talk of a possible second meeting but that was quashed as soon as it emerged a substantial motorcade had left St Peter ...

In a photograph captured by Reuters photographer Guglielmo Mangiapane, the newly anointed Pope is seen clasping his hands in prayer and smiling warmly from the balcony overlooking St Peter's ...

Cardinals have returned to the Sistine Chapel for the second day of the secretive process to elect the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church.

"I wanted to take his mind off it and laugh about something because ... The Holy Father Pope Leo has just been exchanging the sign of peace with the principal celebrants at the altar.

Leo's first words to the crowds below — “Peace be with ... for the Order of St. Augustine that the new pope belongs to is to “live together in harmony, being of one mind and one heart ...

In his first public words as pontiff, history’s first American pope, said: “Peace ... of St. Augustine that the new pope belongs to is to “live together in harmony, being of one mind and ...