As Rome embraced a new holy era, Astrid Joss put her faith in the Palazzo Fiuggi medical spa just outside the city to ...

A local historian went to Rome for the first time during the conclave. But he wasn’t expecting ‘that’ kind of history.

As specialists cleaned and studied the rooms in the Apostolic Palace, they learned new information about the Renaissance ...

On any given day, drones buzz in the skies above Quebec's detention centres looking to drop tobacco, drugs or cellphones to the inmates below.

A seagull attacks a drone flying over St. Peter's Square as Cardinals are gathered in the Sistine Chapel for the Conclave at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Gregorio Borgia ...

Cardinals have commenced the conclave in Vatican City to choose the next Pope after the death of Francis. The 133 cardinals are locked in the Sistine Chapel. They will vote in secrecy. The world ...

Sistine Chapel closes, conclave to elect new pope begins The order, “extra omnes” (all out) delivered by Archbishop Diego Ravelli, allows the beginning of voting to elect the 267th pope to ...

Cardinals choosing the next leader of the global Catholic Church were locked into the Vatican's Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, marking the formal start of the conclave to elect a successor to ...

The conclave to select the next pope has begun after Catholic cardinals from across the world filed into the Sistine Chapel Wednesday before sealing themselves inside.

During the last conclave in 2013, as millions focused their gaze on the roof of the Sistine Chapel, a sea gull landed on the chimney’s metal cover at an opportune moment.

VATICAN CITY — Black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday, signaling that no pope had been elected as 133 cardinals opened the secretive, centuries-old ritual to choose a ...