Step inside the awe-inspiring Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, where Michelangelo’s legendary ceiling frescoes—including The Creation of Adam—unfold above in breathtaking detail, offering a rare and ...

The smallest country in the World, the Vatican City is full of incredible things to do and sites to see. From St. Peter's ...

When visitors first step into the Sistine Chapel and gaze upward, they are struck silent. Above them, Michelangelo's frescoes ...

The world-renowned Louvre Museum in Paris made headlines a few days back not for a new exhibit, but for an unexpected temporary shutdown. And, the reason being, overcrowding. With daily visitor ...

Michelangelo, already in his 60s when he painted it, gives us not pious serenity but terrifying truth. Christ stands at the center—not crucified but glorified. No longer only savior, but judge.

Wearing white vestments, Leo processed into the Sistine Chapel and blessed the cardinals as he approached the altar and Michelangelo's The Last Judgment behind it.

Shortly after 17:45 (15:45 GMT), the conclave's master of ceremonies declared "Extra omnes" -- "Everybody out" in Latin -- and then shut the heavy doors of the 15th century chapel, leaving the 133 ...

VATICAN CITY: Thick black smoke emerged from the Sistine Chapel's chimney Wednesday, according to AFP journalists, in a sign that cardinals failed to elect a new pope in their first conclave vote.

As the cardinals file into the Sistine Chapel, they bow in pairs at the altar. Behind the altar is a crucifix, and behind that is Michelangelo’s Jesus the Judge mural.

Black smoke was pouring 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.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Black smoke was pouring 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 awesomeness of the chapel's frescoes, and Michelangelo's in particular, is meant to remind the cardinals of the weighty responsibility they bear. After the cardinals take their oaths, a senior ...