When Pope Francis died, questions about his successor were all over the news. Every Catholic waited with bated breath on who the new head of the Catholic Church will be. The names of Asians and ...

Spain's Supreme Court has given a museum in Barcelona 20 days to return mural paintings to the Monastery of Santa Maria de ...

Workers have completed a phase of conservation work on historic murals by the late artist Maxo Vanka at St. Nicholas Croatian ...

Commentators have already noted that the last Pope Leo (XIII) was known for his devotion to social justice and the Virgin Mary. However, there is a longer history of popes called Leo — there have been ...

The Vatican City is not only the spiritual heart of the Catholic Church but also a treasure trove of culture and tradition.

In the afternoon, the cardinals walk to the Sistine Chapel-- with its iconic Michelangelo frescoes -- to start the voting process. The vote is held behind closed doors, and its secrecy is closely ...

David Jackson is a postgraduate student in Italian Studies from the University of Sydney, where he is writing his thesis on the frescoes of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Daniel Canaris is ...

Asked whether it was unexpected for an American to be elected, Father Reese said: “Oh yeah, shocking.” Robert Prevost, who has just been announced as the new pope, will be known as Pope Leo XIV.

Sixteen days after Pope Francis's death, cardinals from around the world have shut themselves away for as long as it takes to vote for their new leader.

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 ...

The conclave to select the next Pope is starting, and the Sistine Chapel is the room where it happens. As depicted (with some liberties taken) in the Oscar-nominated film Conclave, this historic ...