Following the death of Pope Francis, the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church will gather at some point next month to elect ...

The Sistine Chapel is one of the Catholic Church's most sacred sites. It was painted by Michelangelo over four years in the High Renaissance style, but ho ...

New exhibit on Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel at Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg features rarely displayed ...

Following the death of Pope Francis, the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church will gather at some point next month to elect ...

The rules of the conclave are to cast one ballot the first evening to gauge initial preferences, without expecting anyone to ...

Roman Catholic cardinals will hold a conclave to elect the Church's 267th pontiff and a successor to Pope Francis, who has ...

most famously "The Creation of Adam" in which God reaches with his finger to touch the outstretched hand of the first man. * More than 20 years later, Michelangelo was commissioned to paint the ...

Cardinal Bergoglio was the first pope to choose the name Francis, in honor of St. Francis of Assisi. It was a significant choice. The man we know from history as St. Francis lived at the turn of 13th ...