Pope Francis, 88, died of a stroke on April 21, Easter Monday, after a long respiratory illness. About 135 cardinals will gather in the Sistine Chapel to choose a new pontiff next week, according ...

Pope Francis's death at the age of 88 means the Catholic Church must choose a new leader. Here ... left to eat and sleep beneath Michelangelo's vivid Renaissance masterpiece.

When the conclave’s cardinals finish casting their ballots under Michelangelo’s frescoed ceilings of the Sistine Chapel, the 267th pope will have to decide whether to continue Francis’ policies.

Pope Francis dies; first pontiff from ... The vote for Benedict’s replacement, inside Michelangelo’s magnificent Sistine Chapel, concluded the evening of March 13, 2013, ...

The following transcript is from "Pope Francis" which aired on September 20, 2015. ... He turned down the Apostolic Palace where popes roomed with Michelangelo and moved into a Vatican hotel.

In 1964, Michelangelo's Pieta made a journey from the Vatican to the 1964 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows NYC on display in the Vatican Pavilion.

When Pope Francis became pontiff: A timeline of his religious journey and career. Dec. 17, 1936: Jorge Mario Bergoglio is born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the eldest of five children to Mario Jose ...

Not exactly Michelangelo, Pope Francis tries his hand at mural painting. By Philip Pullella and Patricia Vicente Rua. August 3, 2023 12:32 PM UTC Updated August 3, 2023 Item 1 ...

On the ceiling of the chapel where the cardinals elected Pope Leo XIV is Michelangelo’s kaleidoscopic signifier of a time when Francis’s vision of an inclusive church would have seemed not ...

When the conclave's cardinals finish casting their ballots under Michelangelo's frescoed ceilings of the Sistine Chapel, the 267th pope will have to decide whether to continue Francis’ policies.

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first North American pope, celebrated his first Mass as pontiff on Friday, presiding in the Sistine Chapel with the cardinals who elected him to succeed Pope Francis and ...

Pope Francis, seen in St. Peter’s Square in 2016, was the spiritual leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics and the tiniest nation, Vatican City, since 2013.