Bishop Ireton High School’s chapel didn’t look like one from the outside, and its yellow bricks clashed with a red-brick ...

As I’ve traveled around France, some of the towns that have stuck with me most weren’t the ones with the grandest monuments — they were the ones bursting with color. There’s just something about ...

Hospitals in several Indian states have begun painting large red cross symbols on their rooftops amid the rising tensions between India and Pakistan following recent cross-border strikes.

Pope Leo XIV delivered this homily at his first Mass as pope in the Sistine Chapel on May 9, the morning after being elected the 266th successor of St. Peter, addressing the cardinal electors who ...

He said if he were in the Sistine Chapel, he’d be voting for Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem who is on many papal contender lists. “He has clear ideas ...

Despite the painting’s high price tag, there is no consensus among experts about who painted the altarpiece, where it was commissioned or even what country the artist was from. Last exhibited in ...

VATICAN CITY — Black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday, signaling that no pope had been elected as 133 cardinals opened the secretive, centuries-old ritual to choose a ...

The highlight of the Sistine Chapel is the beautiful art that adorns the walls and roof of the area. It is said that Michelangelo took four years — from 1508 to 1512 — to complete the frescoes on the ...

He ended up finishing his masterpiece of painting the ceilings and vaults in only four years, finishing in 1512, according to the Musei Vaticani. The Sistine Chapel was used for the ceremonies of ...