Under the frescoes painted by Michelangelo, cardinals will elect the successor to Pope Francis at the Sistine Chapel as the ...

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

The Sistine Chapel in the Vatican owes its name to Pope Sixtus IV (1471-84) who commissioned it. The three-storey brick ...

One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are beginning centuries-old rituals to find a new leader of the 1.4-billion-member ...

Michelangelo Buonarotti was one of the key figures of the Italian Renaissance and art history. Equally gifted as a painter ...

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 ...

Black smoke from Vatican chimney signals Cardinals have not chosen new pope - Some 133 Cardinals began their secretive ...

As the papal conclave is set to begin to elect a new pope, the eyes of the world are on the Sistine Chapel, which will hold ...

The cardinals are sealed inside the Sistine ... Michelangelo and Botticelli, prompting all but the 133 voting cardinals to exit the chamber so the centuries-old ritual could commence. The chapel ...

Early this morning, white smoke from the Sistine Chapel ... of God, which all of you presuppose in your various rites … It would be possible, through the experience of a few wise men who are ...

Black smoke was pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave ...