The late artist Maxo Vanka created the mural in 1941, based on a scene from the Book of Exodus. It’s one of 25 murals that ...

They sing Gregorian chants in Latin, pray and receive Communion at a side chapel — inside the huge, nondenominational ...

Black smoke has poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave to choose a new leader of the Catholic Church The smoke billowed out at ...

The hymn implores the saints to help the cardinals find a new leader of the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church. Cardinals are preparing to enter the Sistine Chapel. Here’s what will happen ...

Vatican firefighters atop the tiled roof of the Sistine Chapel secure the chimney ... he called “a key stage in the life of the Catholic Church.” The stove has been tested discreetly and ...

Catholic liberal arts colleges have turned toward traditional architecture when expanding to accommodate the numbers. Here ...