The Sistine Chapel has witnessed every papal election ... broke new ground in portraying the dynamic creative acts of God, art historian Elizabeth Lev said.

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

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

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

The Sistine Chapel is the second ... showing 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 ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Vatican workers installed the simple stove in the Sistine Chapel where ballots will ... lobe of one lung removed as a young man.) He was elected a short time later.

In his regulations for the conclave, St. John Paul II wrote that in the Sistine Chapel, “everything is conducive to an awareness of the presence of God”. After the cardinals take their oaths ...

“My hope is that cardinals will choose a man who can be ... Paul II wrote that in the Sistine Chapel, “everything is conducive to an awareness of the presence of God.” After the cardinals ...

“My hope is that cardinals will choose a man who can be ... Paul II wrote that in the Sistine Chapel, “everything is conducive to an awareness of the presence of God.” After the cardinals ...