The goal of a Vatican conclave is to choose a new pope. That’s what happened in May when Robert Prevost was chosen to become ...

For Robert Prevost, summer has turned out very differently than he imagined. Robert Prevost never imagined that the conclave ...

Pope Leo will announce reforms to the Roman Curia in the autumn, Archbishop of Westminster Cardinal Vincent Nichols has ...

From 1963: After white smoke billowed at the Vatican, a massive crowd celebrated and rumors about the vote swirled across Rome, Xavier Rynne writes.

Watching films on Amazon has always been a case of hunting for freebies, while mostly resigning oneself to coughing up the price of a coffee: thousands of movies can be rented, by anyone, for £3.49 ...

The meeting will be the pope’s first audience with the senior Russian cleric, who represented Patriarch Kirill, head of the ...

It was May 8 and honeymooners Triston and Kailee Wenturine had spent a long day sightseeing in Rome. At about 6 p.m., they ...

The Chapel's ceiling is roughly 600 square meters, nearly the size of three tennis courts; a monumental task that Michelangelo painted almost entirely by himself.

Since white smoke billowed in May from the Sistine Chapel and Pope Leo XIV was elected Pope Francis' successor, the new pope's childhood home — a small, two-story house in Dolton, Illinois ...

Such is the case with the Cave of Altamira in Cantabria, Spain, the "Sistine Chapel of Prehistoric Art" that dates back to nearly 36,000 years ago.

Spain's Sijena murals, marvels of Hispanic medieval art, are at risk of serious damage after a court rules they must be returned.