Some believe the basilica on Vatican Hill was built over the martyred bones of the apostle Peter—but is that true? After ...

The director holds no sentimentality, revealing the reality: the pope's death means a body to be processed and a vacant ...

When the chapel windows are boarded up, and all outsiders are asked to leave, it starts to get stuffy and unpleasant.

Frustrated, in 1270 the locals locked the churchmen in a room with a key ... when Bartolomeo Prignano ascended to the papal throne as Urban VI. His election was ultimately unfortunate, as his ...

"Just before the pope comes out onto the balcony and reveals himself, the windows on either side fill up with the faces of ...

This film, based on Robert Harris’s 2016 thriller of the same title, centers on a British cardinal (a sensational Ralph Fiennes), and a campaign for a new pope.

That stoked Harris to write “Conclave,” a 2016 novel that went inside the Vatican to imagine how ... to sit in a dark room and all we hear is the hum of a fluorescent light and his breath." ...