(SOUNDBITE OF BELL TOLLING) SHERLOCK: But it wasn't always like this. In fact ... and more than 100,000 artifacts connect through hallways painted with Renaissance frescoes to the Sistine Chapel.

After that unforgettable, once-in-a-lifetime experience of being a participant in a conclave with 132 other brother cardinals ...

Pope Leo XIV, right, stands in the Sistine Chapel among cardinals after being elected at the Vatican on May 8, 2025. He ...

DETROW: Quite the scene - here to take us through the Sistine Chapel's art and its significance to ... And they started doing things like locking the cardinal electors in, rationing their food ...

The Vatican has closed the Sistine Chapel ... predecessors like Benedict XVI focused on doctrine. For inspiration, the cardinals will also have the great beauty of the frescoes painted by ...

Like most churches of ... ascending into heaven.) The Sistine ceiling, a flattened vault, was originally painted to resemble a starry sky. The chapel was officially dedicated on the Feast of ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass as pontiff in the Sistine Chapel on Friday, delivering a passionate speech that ...

Vatican technicians are securing what on Wednesday will arguably become the world's most beautiful bunker, making sure that what happens in the Sistine Chapel stays in the Sistine Chapel.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL TOLLING) SHERLOCK: But it wasn't always like this ... connect through hallways painted with Renaissance frescoes to the Sistine Chapel. GAGLIANO: Behind the window, you can ...