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

The conclave to select the next pope has begun after Catholic cardinals from across the world filed into the Sistine Chapel ...

You’ve probably seen pictures of the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Maybe even stared at it in a textbook or squinted at it through ...

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 Sistine Chapel, a sacred room in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City, is one of the most famous chapels in the world—and ...

The world officially has a new pope in Robert Francis Prevost, the first American ever to become pontiff, and with his ...

Who built the Sistine Chapel? The Sistine Chapel, where the papal conclave takes place, is named after Pope Sixtus IV Della Rovere, who commissioned its construction between 1477 and 1480.

The doors of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican were closed on Wednesday, signalling the start of a secret conclave where 133 ...

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

Roman Catholic cardinals will begin the task of electing a new pope, locking themselves away from the world until they choose ...

This secretive conclave to elect the next pope is being held in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel. What's it like inside and how ...

The 133 cardinal electors took an oath of secrecy before being locked behind the heavy wood doors of the Sistine Chapel for ...