Around 135 cardinals will enter the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday to begin the process of electing the new leader of the ...

The preparations are all leading up to the solemn pageantry of the start of the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis ...

CITÉ DU VATICAN, Holy See (AFP) — Besides its masterpieces by Michelangelo, the Sistine Chapel is undergoing a makeover, ...

Workers enter the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City on May 2 to install a stove and chimney to be used for the election of a new ...

Preparations for the conclave to find a new pope accelerated Friday with the installation of the chimney out of the Sistine ...

The voting is highly choreographed and time-consuming to avoid any possibility of fraud or doubt about the results.

Cardinals enter the Vatican’s sealed conclave to elect the next pope in a centuries-old ritual shrouded in secrecy.

The Vatican's Sistine Chapel has been prepared to host 133 Cardinal electors for the upcoming conclave to elect the 267th Pope.

The secretive process could have begun as early as Monday, but the cardinals gave themselves extra time to get to know one ...

The College of Cardinals celebrated the ninth and final Novendiales Mass for Pope Francis on Sunday, May 4, the third Sunday of Easter.

The Colosseum, the Trevi Fountain and the Sistine Chapel usually top the "must see" list of visitors to Rome and the Vatican.