The Vatican Museums has unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms. These are the spectacularly ...

As the Chicago White Sox honor Pope Leo XIV with an outdoor Mass on Saturday, his 2005 World Series seat has become a pilgrimage site for the faithful.

One former priest for the church called it “The Sistine Chapel of Pittsburgh”— a sanctuary dominated by the single artist’s tour-de-force. But decades of smoke, atmospheric salts and water ...

Eddie J. Schmit III, left, and his son Eddie J. Schmit IV pose for a portrait with a mural of Pope Leo XIV near section 140 on Monday, May 19, 2025, at Rate Field.

Watch a portion of Pope Leo’s homily on Friday: @cnn Pope Leo XIV delivered the homily during mass at the Sistine Chapel a day after he was elected as the 267th pope of the Catholic Church.

Vince, a senior at St. Rita, was walking through his school’s halls when the white smoke billowed out of the Sistine Chapel. And during the next class period, the news came over the intercom.

VATICAN CITY -- The temporary chimney atop the Sistine Chapel released a plume of white smoke on Thursday evening local time, signaling that the 133 cardinals working inside had reached a two ...

The Vatican said that Pope Leo XIV will celebrate Mass on Friday at the Sistine Chapel with the cardinals who voted for him. On Sunday, he will recite the Regina Coeli at St. Peter’s Basilica.

Catholic school students on a field trip to Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago on Thursday. Courtesy Natalie Naglak Touring the site, the students learned white smoke had emerged from the Sistine Chapel.

Cardinal Robert Prevost is elected Pope Leo XIV to become the first pope from the US. Read a recap of the events of May 8.

VATICAN CITY — Cardinals returned to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday to resume voting for a new pope and crowds flocked back to St. Peter’s Square to await their decision, after the first ...