Johnson also noted, "A stereotypical association of the colour of the smoke — white (positive) and black (negative) — lies behind the use of the two contrasting smoke colours." Over the years ...

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 ...

Whether it is black — meaning the majority has not been reached — or white — meaning the new pope has been elected — is a matter of extreme importance to the billions of Catholics living ...

In October 2021, the artist Serge Attukwei Clottey watched anxiously as a painting he had made just a few months earlier went ...

Francis was elected on the fifth in 2013. Black smoke means voting is ongoing. White smoke means a new Pope has been chosen and accepted his role - Habemus Papam. News that a Pope has – or ...

A 100ft high artwork of a miner adorns a beach famously washed over each day with millions of coal particles which once supplied the former colliery. The giant bare-chested figure chiselling coal was ...

Black smoke means no pope yet; white smoke signals a new pope has been chosen. VATICAN CITY - All eyes are on the copper chimney of the Sistine Chapel, following Pope Francis’ death on Easter ...