Travellers to Rome should expect closures, visitor restrictions and crowds at some of the city’s main attractions.

Black smoke streamed from the Sistine Chapel's chimney to signal that cardinals failed to select a new Pope in their first ...

The new pope will be chosen by cardinals gathered in the Sistine Chapel, with all of Michelangelo’s genius gazing down on ...

Rome’s key tourist sites within the Vatican ... This strictly confidential gathering sees Roman Catholic cardinals locked inside the Sistine Chapel until a decision is made.

US Vice President JD Vance’s Vatican visit has made headlines, especially as he was one of the last foreign leaders to meet ...

The death of a pope triggers a centuries-old ritual to elect a new one. It involves sacred oaths, the piercing of ballots ...

The word itself predates Christianity, but the conclave with its secretive deliberations and ancient trappings still captures ...

Even though cardinals don’t campaign for the job, there are always front-runners going into a conclave to choose the next ...

ALBAWABA - After the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had passed away at the age of 88, the Roman Catholic Church has ...

The death of Pope Francis sets into motion a series of rituals, some of which go back more than 2,000 years, including how to ...

As per the tradition, cardinals will gather under Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling to elect Pope Francis’s successor. We ...

As Vatican officials prepare to lay Pope Francis to rest Saturday at St. Peter's Basilica, members of the College of ...