Warning: The following contains major spoilers for Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning!

In fact, 2025 is a big year for Michelangelo ... Mary Magdelane is hidden among the 300-plus figures that Michelangelo painted into The Last Judgment mural in the Sistine Chapel.

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass on Friday, a day after his historic election as the first U.S.-born pope in the Catholic Church’s 2,000-year history while ...

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Black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday, signalling that no pope had been elected as 133 cardinals opened the secretive, centuries-old ritual to choose a new leader of the ...

Seated at rows of tables beneath the gaze of Michelangelo’s powerful image of the Last Judgment, before any further ... listen to a meditation from 90-year-old Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa ...

Re, 91, had presided at Francis' funeral, delivering a heartfelt sermon recalling history's first Latin American pope and the reforming 12-year papacy ... Standing before Michelangelo’s vision of ...

The conclave to elect the next pope begins in Rome on Wednesday. Vatican watchers say the process is more than a simple tussle between conservatives and reformers. The winner will determine the fate ...

The brilliant blue background of the Last Judgment is made from ... “the naked ones,” and souls on their way to judgment. In 1564, the year Michelangelo died, church leaders at the Council ...