On the morning of May 7 the conclave will commence, with all the cardinals present, with the Holy Mass for the Election of ...

Soon after ballots are distributed, the Cardinals will move on to the first vote and those with more than 20 votes will be ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — One hundred and thirty-three cardinals sequestered themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for a ...

On Wednesday evening, under the domed ceiling of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel, 133 cardinals will vote to elect the Catholic Church's 267th pope. The day will begin at 10:00 (09:00 BST) with a mass ...

Pope Francis’ coffin will be sealed during a liturgical rite held in St Peter’s Basilica on Friday at 8 am, Vatican News has reported. This will be done ahead of the papal funeral on Saturday, April ...

Cardinals attend a final Mass St. Peter’s Basilica, before the conclave to ... and in silence — beneath Michelangelo’s famed ceiling fresco of the Creation and his monumental “Last ...

VATICAN CITY — Cardinals from five continents held a final mass in St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican ... the Vatican said on Tuesday. Under a ceiling of frescoes painted by Michelangelo ...

Remains of a sprawling necropolis (“city of the dead”) hidden under St. Peter’s Basilica were discovered ... Mosaics from the fifth century and a ceiling gilded with gold said to have ...

The ceiling is covered in gilded wood ... Francis will be the first not to be interred in St. Peter’s Basilica since Leo XIII, who died in 1903 and was laid to rest in the Basilica di San ...