Pope Francis, who presided over the Roman Catholic Church and its estimated 1.4 billion followers for 12 years, died April 21 ...

The Sistine Chapel takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV della Rovere (who ... Sandro Botticelli and Cosimo Rosselli who collaborated with other artists already present in Rome including Pinturicchio, ...

VATICAN CITY — Black smoke streamed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday morning in Rome, signaling that the 133 cardinal electors have not come to a two-thirds agreement about who the ...

Black smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel on Thursday morning ... “I hope that when I return to Rome this evening, I’ll find the white smoke already rising.” The voting cardinals began their behind ...

Pope Francis's death at the age of 88 means the Catholic Church must choose a new leader. Here's how cardinals elect the next ...

In fact, this will be only the 26th conclave held inside the Sistine Chapel, and there have been 266 popes. LUCIANO GAGLIANO: The conclave in the past could be organized everywhere, not only Rome ...

Key is preparing the Sistine Chapel for the red-robed cardinals who will gather at the Vatican in the heart of Rome to choose the next pope in an ancient process fictionalized in the 2024 film ...

Pope Francis has been laid to rest, the conclave has been assembled and, after due deliberation by the participating ...

Each day, our special correspondents in Rome bring you the latest from the Vatican following the death of Pope Francis and ...

(AP Photo/Plinio Lepri) FILE - Visitors admire the Sistine Chapel inside the Vatican Museums on the occasion of the museum's reopening, in Rome, May 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino ...