Cardinals return to the Sistine Chapel to vote for a new pope today. AFP via Getty Images. Mid-morning Thursday, the Vatican television cameras resumed their fixed shot on the Sistine Chapel ...

Sistine Chapel's recent ties to pop culture. Besides the artwork, most people have also become familiar with the Sistine Chapel through fiction thanks to Robert Harris' 2016 hit book-turned-Oscar ...

VATICAN CITY — Black smoke is pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave to choose a new leader of the Catholic Church. The ...

The beginning . The project of the Sistine Chapel began in 1473, when a previous building on the site was destroyed, but the wall base and asymmetrical plan of the building remained as it was ...

VATICAN CITY, — Vatican workers installed the simple stove in the Sistine Chapel where ballots will be burned during the upcoming conclave to elect a new pope, as jockeying continued outside ...

FILE – Tables and chairs line the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican in preparation for the conclave, on April 16, 2005. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, File) But the church is at the same time turning ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Exit tourists. Enter cardinals. The Vatican has closed the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather for the conclave to elect the next pope after the death of Pope Francis ...

Vatican prepares for conclave after death of Pope Francis 03:14. Vatican workers installed the simple stove in the Sistine Chapel where ballots will be burned during the upcoming conclave to elect ...