Being a devoted Catholic on a mostly secular campus can be challenging; Swantek says he’s never felt “more needed as a priest ...

Vatican firefighters atop the tiled roof of the Sistine Chapel secure the chimney that will signal the election of the pope. (Photo: Junno Arocho Esteves) In the nearly five-minute clip ...

The unvirginal hands of a gay man decorated the walls and ceilings the most famous church in the world: the Sistine Chapel.

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

The Sistine Chapel takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV ... Practically speaking, because there is a small chapel in the third-floor private apartment of the Holy Father, the Pauline is not used ...

The Sistine Chapel, built by Pope Sixtus and famous for ... No electronic devices devices are allowed inside, and a false floor is installed under which is electronic jamming equipment is working ...

People visit the Sistine Chapel in Vatican. The chapel’s floor is a staggering work of marble inlay art, designed in Opus Alexandrinum style. File image/AFP The first conclave in the Sistine Chapel ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday, signalling that no pope had been elected as 133 cardinals opened the secretive, centuries-old ritual to ...

They will walk on a newly installed floor elevated to provide a seamless platform with the base of the altar, which is several steps higher than the rest of the chapel. Just what may be under that ...

VATICAN CITY -Vatican technicians are securing what on Wednesday (May 7) will arguably become the world's most beautiful bunker, making sure that what happens in the Sistine Chapel stays in the ...