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

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

On the ceiling of the chapel where the cardinals elected Pope Leo XIV is Michelangelo’s kaleidoscopic signifier of a time when Francis’s vision of an inclusive church would have seemed not radical at ...

The Vatican has closed the Sistine ... showing God’s outstretched hand imparting the divine spark of life to the first man. The chapel is named after Pope Sixtus IV, an art patron who oversaw ...

The most famous scene in the Sistine Chapel is The Creation of Adam. Part of Michelangelo's ceiling paintings, the fresco depicts God giving life to Adam. The iconic image is known for the ...

The Sistine ... God's outstretched hand imparting the divine spark of life to the first man. Pope Sixtus IV was an art patron who oversaw the construction and restoration of the main papal chapel ...

But those now in Rome hoping to admire the Sistine Chapel will not ... Even without the chapel, the Vatican Museums contain one of the great art collections, stretching from ancient Roman ...

The Vatican Closes the Sistine ... showing God's outstretched hand imparting the divine spark of life to the first man. The chapel is named after Pope Sixtus IV, an art patron who oversaw the ...

The Vatican has closed the Sistine ... showing God’s outstretched hand imparting the divine spark of life to the first man. The chapel is named after Pope Sixtus IV, an art patron who oversaw ...