Pope Leo XIV, right, stands in the Sistine Chapel among cardinals after being elected at the Vatican on May 8, 2025. He ...

After that unforgettable, once-in-a-lifetime experience of being a participant in a conclave with 132 other brother cardinals ...

The cardinals are sealed inside the Sistine Chapel in Vatican ... vow and swear, so help me God and these holy gospels of God which I touch with my hand,” the cardinals spoke in Latin while ...

The Sistine Chapel has witnessed every papal election since 1492 with only five exceptions, and it is preparing to once again host the conclave. The 133 cardinal electors, meeting behind closed ...

Vatican workmen have begun installing a chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel ahead of next ... with the outside world so that only 'God and the Holy Spirit' can influence their decision.

The chimney that will let the world know when cardinals have chosen a successor to Pope Francis was installed Friday on the roof of the Sistine Chapel. Firefighters were seen putting up the ...

VATICAN CITY — On Wednesday afternoon, red-hatted clerics who carry the same weight and dignity as princes within the Catholic Church entered the Sistine Chapel for the papal conclave to choose ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Black smoke was pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney ... “It will be God’s choice.” Myra Beye, 25, who hails from the Philippines but has lived in Rome many ...

In his regulations for the conclave, Re recalled, St. John Paul II wrote that in the Sistine Chapel, “everything is conducive to an awareness of the presence of God.” After the cardinals took ...

Vatican cuts phone signal ahead of secret Sistine Chapel vote to elect new pope - In the pre-conclave Mass, senior cardinal Giovanni Battista Re prayed for the cardinal electors to be enlightened to c ...

White smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel during the conclave to elect ... that my vote is given to the one who, before God, I think should be elected.” The folded ballot ...