NPR secured one of the last public tours of the Sistine Chapel before it closes for the Catholic ... FRAYER: And with that, three hours after we arrived and well prepped by Airoldi, we're ushered ...

The Vatican Closes the Sistine Chapel ... after a funeral in St. Peter's Square that gathered world leaders and hundreds of thousands of others, and a nine-day period of mourning is continuing ...

The conclave will be held in the Sistine Chapel, under a ceiling of Michelangelo's frescoes. This week, I snagged one of the last tickets to go inside that famous chapel before the College of ...