From the outside, it looks like any other New England church building — a boxy, white structure with a single steeple ...

Visitors view the frescoes Sunday, April 6, 2025, inside the South Solon Meeting House in Solon, Maine. A rock wall surrounds ...

"Maine’s Sistine Chapel" or the South Solon Meeting House, in Waterville, Maine, is covered with 70-year-old fresco murals ...

When the Lyrid meteor shower reaches its peak, it will be spring’s first chance to see shooting stars. The Lyrids have ...

Maybe. It all depends on the choices you make ahead of your trip. People who travel to Rome ask this question more than any ...

The recent launch of a website dedicated to frescoes in a Maine meeting house has created a new surge of interest in the ...

The overwhelming grandeur, scope and vision of Michelangelo’s miraculous Sistine Chapel ceiling and “The Last Judgment” frescoes transcend reason and defy human capability. Comprising more ...

Entering the Sistine Chapel is an exercise in wonder. It is swathed in art, seemingly no expense spared, and there’s barely a soul inside to detract from the visual onslaught. To anyone who has ...

But, he was seen for the first time since his hospitalisation last Sunday as he attended Holy Mass in the hospital chapel. The Vatican's social media post read: "This morning #PopeFrancis ...

Buckingham Palace announced on March 18 that Charles and Camilla will have an audience with the pope, and will also attend a service in the Sistine Chapel, focused on the theme of "care for ...

When the cardinals meet, they gather in the Sistine Chapel. All cardinal electors must swear an oath of secrecy and vote by secret ballot. Only cardinals under age 80 are eligible to vote.