There Sistine Chapelin the Vatican Museums, was commissioned by Pope Sixtus IV – from which it takes its name – ...

Work to prepare the Sistine Chapel for the gathering of the cardinals to elect a new pope has begun. The building in Vatican ...

The Sistine Chapel is a renowned site of religious and artistic significance within the Vatican. Built from 1473 to 1481 and ...

A change in popes — through death or resignation — is a complicated process. These are the need-to-know terms — some of them ...

The church is divided. The problem is to find the one who unites, not pretend that it isn’t divided,” one church historian ...

As a result of Francis’ expansion of the diversity of cardinals who will elect his successor, all that is certain about the ...

Cardinals this week will start in-depth discussions on planning the conclave to choose Pope Francis' successor.

Following the death of Pope Francis, the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church will gather at some point next month to elect ...

Following the death of Pope Francis, the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church will gather at some point next month to elect ...

The recent launch of a website dedicated to frescoes in a Maine meeting house has created a new surge of interest in the ...

The Lawrence Chapel in the Town of Catharine, a few miles northeast of Odessa, was built in 1880 by a prominent local family that relocated from New York City. The chapel and nearby cemetery ...

The gaze of those who enter the Sistine Chapel through the ceremonial door – the east door of the building, the one through which popes, cardinals and their retinue have always made their entrance, ...