Millions visit the Sistine Chapel every year - making it the second most visited museum in the world - but it will now ...

Exit tourists. Enter cardinals. The Vatican has closed the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather for the conclave to ...

As such, to protect the safety of The Vatican City's residents and the cardinals participating in the upcoming papal conclave ...

With 135 cardinals eligible to vote, the coming conclave is set to be the largest in the history of the Catholic Church and ...

Pope Francis's death at the age of 88 means the Catholic Church must choose a new leader. Here's how cardinals elect the next ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A conclave is the centuries-old election of a pope that derives its name from the Italian “con clave” ...

Visitors have been barred from the Sistine Chapel, where the conclave of cardinals will vote to elect the next pope.

Following the death of Pope Francis last week, the Vatican announced the indefinite closure of its famed Vatican Museums as ...

The cardinals who enter the Sistine Chapel May 7 to elect a new pope use smoke signals to communicate with the outside world.

The Vatican is closing the Sistine Chapel to the public as part of preparations for the conclave to elect the next pope after ...

The status of an Italian cardinal is being debated as preparations get under way for the May 7 conclave to elect a successor ...

Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Filipino Cardinal Luis Tagle are considered top contenders, according to The Associated ...