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 ...

COMMENTARY: Not since 1808, when Bishop John Carroll was elevated to serve the see of Baltimore, has the Catholic Church in the U.S. had a clear national leader.

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

The unvirginal hands of a gay man decorated the walls and ceilings the most famous church in the world: the Sistine Chapel.

Pope Leo XIV, right, stands in the Sistine Chapel among cardinals after being elected at the Vatican on May 8, 2025. He ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass as pontiff in the Sistine Chapel on Friday ... one of Francis’ key priorities of making the Catholic Church more attentive to lay people and inclusivity ...

VATICAN CITY -- The temporary chimney atop the Sistine Chapel released a plume ... a two-thirds majority to elect a new pope for the Catholic Church. American Cardinal Robert Prevost was shortly ...

The official start of the papal conclave to elect the next leader of the Catholic Church is about to begin. The 133 voting cardinals are expected to take their oaths at the Sistine Chapel at about ...