Millions of tourists visit the Colosseum and Sistine Chapel each year, yet only a tiny fraction ever step inside the gilded ...

AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sistine Chapel Experience announced that one of its partners, producer Gary Lucchesi, received the prestigious Ordine al Merito del Lavoro award from ...

When Pope Francis died in April on Easter Monday, the news triggered not only an outpouring of mourners but also a centuries-old tradition shrouded in secrecy: the papal conclave. Two weeks later 133 ...

Black smoke billows from the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel where 115 cardinals gathered to elect the new head of the Roman Catholic Church, at the Vatican, Monday, April 18, 2005. The black smoke ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. IOWA CITY — As white smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel chimney at 6:08 p.m. May 8 in Vatican City, ...

Pope Leo XIV greets the crowd from the popemobile before a Holy mass for the beginning of his pontificate, in St Peter's Square in the Vatican, on May 18, 2025. [AFP]. White smoke billowed from the ...

Pope Leo XIV greets people at the conclusion of his inauguration Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican May 18, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) White smoke billowed from the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel ...

VATICAN CITY — After Chicago native Pope Leo XIV made history as the first American elected pontiff, the Rev. Homero Sánchez sent him a quick text saying, “Congratulations Holy Pope.” The priest from ...

On May 7, Robert Francis Prevost entered the Sistine Chapel as a dark-horse cardinal from Chicago. A day later, after securing the votes of at least 89 out of his 132 peers, he appeared on the balcony ...

A recently installed chimney on the roof of St. John Vianney College Seminary in St. Paul billowed white smoke into a clear, blue sky May 8, mirroring the smoke that emitted from the Sistine Chapel's ...

When the white smoke came out of the Sistine Chapel chimney at the Vatican last week signaling a new pope was elected, Peters Township quarterback Nolan DiLucia got a couple texts from the coaches at ...

Prayers for a speedy conclave were answered when, on May 8, white smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney to signal the election of a new pope. Robert Francis Prevost, who will now be known as ...