Image White smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel after the College of Cardinals elected Francis as pope in 2013.Credit...Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Inside the Vatican, the dean of the college ...

March 13, 2025, marks Francis' 12th anniversary as pope. He holds the ninth longest papacy of the past 200 years.

Pope Francis is in his 4th week recovering in ... It was March 13, 2013 when *** fluff of white smoke came out of the Sistine Chapel behind me, announcing that the conclave had chosen ...

Pope Francis, who is battling double pneumonia ... the ballots are burned in a stove with a chemical that produces black smoke visible from St. Peter’s Square. Once a candidate is selected ...