Workers have completed a phase of conservation work on historic murals by the late artist Maxo Vanka at St. Nicholas Croatian ...

Throughout the history of art, great masters have captured not only beauty in their works, but also secrets. Some did it to ...

(AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) (CN) — The doors of the Sistine Chapel closed to the outside world on Wednesday as 133 Roman Catholic Church cardinals began the secret process of electing a successor to ...

The Pauline Chapel includes the last frescoes of Michelangelo, painted as an old man after he had finished the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel. The Sistine Chapel takes its name from Pope ...

Michelangelo’s fame quickly spread throughout the world, and he became known as the “Divine Michelangelo ... was the construction of the Sistine Chapel. (upbeat playful music) And the ...

The smoke has cleared, the bells have rung, and the papal balcony has once again served as the world’s most dramatic stage. On Thursday evening, Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago was officially ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass as pontiff in the Sistine Chapel on Friday ... The new pope stood at an altar next to the Michelangelo painting “The Last Judgment” and warned against ...

As is tradition after a new pope is elected, Pope Leo XIV presided over his first eucharistic celebration as pontiff on Friday morning in the Sistine Chapel with the cardinal electors in attendance.

VATICAN CITY – Newly installed Pope Leo XIV will hold a mass with cardinals in the Sistine Chapel on May 9, a day after he was elected as the surprise choice to be the leader of the Catholic ...

VATICAN CITY -- The temporary chimney atop the Sistine Chapel released a plume of white smoke on Thursday evening local time, signaling that the 133 cardinals working inside had reached a two ...