The papal conclave will take place as usual in the hallowed space of the Sistine Chapel. What is the history of this famous ...

The conclave to select the next Pope is starting, and the Sistine Chapel is the room where it happens. As depicted (with some ...

Latter-day Saint scholar Matthew Bowman explains the similarities and differences in how Catholics pick their popes and ...

The conclave to select the next Pope is starting, and the Sistine Chapel is the room where ... He was commissioned to paint the 12 apostles, but in the end delivered over 300 figures, including ...

Invoking the help of the Holy Spirit and recognizing that millions of people all over the world were praying for them, 133 ...

“This is not my art,” was Michelangelo’s succinct response when Pope Julius II asked him to paint a simple, geometric composition with the 12 apostles on the ceiling of the Sistine Chape ...

Robert Francis Prevost, Pope Leo XIV, succeeds Pope Francis. Leo spent much of his ministry in Peru and was elected a Roman ...

You have called me to carry that cross, and to be blessed with that mission, and I know I can rely on each and every one of you to walk with me,” the new pontiff said.

Sistine Chapel and begin the conclave with a singular goal: to elect "a worthy pastor" for the universal church.

The Vatican announced the election of Pope Leo XIV shortly after white smoke blew from the roof of the Sistine Chapel on ...