Historically, few institutions have more staunchly opposed the legalization of gay marriage than the Catholic Church. Even ...

Pope Leo XIV, right, stands in the Sistine Chapel among cardinals after being elected at the Vatican on May 8, 2025. He ...

The Sistine ... of Michelangelo’s vault in 2012, invited people to interpret the works with the help of prayer in his address. “Praying in the Sistine Chapel, enveloped in the story of God ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with art historian Kim Butler about the artwork that adorns the walls of the Sistine Chapel ... under Michelangelo's iconic "Creation Of Adam," which shows God with ...

on the afternoon of May 7, Archbishop Diego Ravelli will order all but the cardinal electors who will choose the next pope to leave the Sistine Chapel ... man. Despite the legend of Michelangelo ...

On the ceiling of the chapel where the cardinals elected Pope Leo XIV is Michelangelo’s kaleidoscopic signifier of a time when Francis’s vision of an inclusive church would have seemed not radical at ...

The great doors of the Sistine Chapel shut Wednesday after the cry of “extra omnes” — Latin for “all out” — and 133 cardinals began the secretive, centuries-old ritual of electing a new pope to lead ...

One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are beginning centuries-old rituals to elect a successor to Pope Francis.

Speaking in Latin, Parolin stood before Michelangelo's ... Paul II wrote that in the Sistine Chapel, "everything is conducive to an awareness of the presence of God." After the cardinals took ...