From the Pilgrims' Madonna at the Basilica of St. Augustine to the Martyrdom of St. Ursula that closes the "Caravaggio 2025" ...

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 Last Judgment is a ... published until two years after Michelangelo’s fresco was completed. But Michelangelo would have already known about Copernicus’s work before it was published.

Cardinals failed again Thursday morning to find a successor to Pope Francis, sending black smoke billowing up through the Sistine Chapel chimney after two ... Parolin stood before Michelangelo’s ...

Speaking in Latin, Parolin stood before Michelangelo's vision of heaven and hell, "The Last Judgment," and led the cardinals in ... a leader who will crack down on decades of abuse and cover-up.

VATICAN CITY - Catholic cardinals who will choose the next pope filed into the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, before locking themselves ... under the gaze of the stern Christ depicted in Michelangelo's ...

In “The Last Judgment,” Michelangelo depicted a self-portrait in the skin of flayed St. Bartholomew, to show “he suffered so much, he didn’t like to paint,” he said.

He stood before Michelangelo’s vision of heaven and hell, “The Last Judgment,” and led the ... will crack down on decades of abuse and cover-up. Advocates for women’s ordination sent ...

Speaking in Latin, Parolin stood before Michelangelo's vision of heaven and hell, “The Last Judgment,” and led ... down on decades of abuse and cover-up. Advocates for women’s ordination ...

The dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, urged the voters to set aside all personal interests and find a pope who prizes unity.