The meeting of the College of Cardinals, where the next head of the Catholic Church will be selected, is scheduled to take place on May 7 ...

From a realistic, picture-perfect painting to a captivating view of the chimney installation on top of the Sistine Chapel, ...

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 ...

The universal church is on full display during the waiting-for-white-smoke period. Watchers who gather at St. Peter's Square ...

White smoke curled from a chimney over the Sistine Chapel at 7:06 p.m. on March 13, 2013. Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of ...

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

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

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

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

Ahead of the election of the next pope, a chimney was installed atop the Sistine Chapel on Friday, which will help notify the ...

Vatican workers have installed the simple stove in the Sistine Chapel where ballots will be burned during the upcoming ...

Vatican firefighters have installed the iconic chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, a key step ahead of the May 7 conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor. Black smoke = no pope yet; white smoke = a new ...