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

The conclave to select the next Pope is starting, and the Sistine Chapel is the room where it happens. As depicted (with some liberties taken) in the Oscar-nominated film Conclave, this historic event ...

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 Catholic cardinals as they cast their votes for the next leader of the ...

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

SHERLOCK: Luciano Gagliano works in the immense Vatican Museums, whose 4 miles of galleries, 1,000 rooms and more than ...

In that position, Petrini runs the city state and is responsible for everything from the Vatican Museums that provide the Holy See with most of its revenue, to the firefighters who installed the ...

(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 ...

What is the science behind the smoke signals on the Sistine Chapel to announce if a new pope has been elected?

Italy's top cultural sites drew more than 60 million paying visitors in 2024, surpassing the country's population for the ...

After every two rounds of voting in the Sistine Chapel, the ballots of the cardinals ... and is responsible for everything from the Vatican Museums that provide the Holy See with most of its ...