Castel Gondolfo sprawls over 55 hectares
Pope Leo XIV will holiday twice at the papal palace in Castel Gandolfo near Rome this summer, reviving a tradition abandoned by his predecesso…
The Price Is Right was disrupted on Thursday, May 8, when news broke that the Vatican selected a new pope. The game show cut out in the middle…
After two days of voting, white smoke streamed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City on Thursday (May 8) morning, when the co…
The Selma Art Guild and its featured artist for April and May, Susan K. Youngblood, enjoyed a well-attended reception for Youngblood at the SA…
White smoke rises from the Sistine Chapel in 2013 to announce the election of Pope Francis
When Catholic cardinals vote in the conclave, they then burn their ballots, sending up black smoke to signal no decision or white smoke to sho…
Catholic cardinals are moving into a guest house at the Vatican ahead of the start of the closed-door conclave where they will choose a new pope
The Vatican's papal conclave to choose a new spiritual leader for the world's 1.4 billion Catholics is governed by procedures and rituals that…
From Pius to Clement, Hilarius to Simplicius, papal names through the centuries are inextricably linked to the brilliant or wretched legacies …