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Recap our coverage as Pope Francis's funeral arrangements are discussed in the Vatican with world leaders set to attend.

* The Sistine Chapel was first used for a conclave after the death of Sixtus IV in 1484. A number of conclaves have been held ...

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The Catholic College of Cardinals convening to elect a new pope is one of the oldest methods of electing a head of state that ...

The recent launch of a website dedicated to frescoes in a Maine meeting house has created a new surge of interest in the ...

With its implication that the young woman isn’t as chaste as she should be, the marriage-prospect-derailing portrait triggers ducal panic and the deployment of the city-state’s best investigative ...