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As the papal conclave is set to begin to elect a new pope, the eyes of the world are on the Sistine Chapel, which will hold ...
All eyes are on Vatican City Tuesday with just over a day to go until the start of the papal conclave to elect the 267th pope ...
Today, the College of Cardinals will be locked inside the Sistine Chapel’s Apostolic Palace until white smoke billows above ...
The oath of secrecy, as stipulated by the apostolic constitution Universi Dominici Gregis, took place in the Pauline Chapel ...
From the Sistine Chapel to St Peter's Square, locations in the Vatican where the new pope's election will play out in the ...
When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected pope in 2013, he chose not to move into the papal apartments in the Apostolic Palace, ...
It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that ended the longest papal election in the ...
The longest conclave in history lasted almost three years following the death of Clement IV in November 1268, held in the papal palace at Viterbo, near Rome. From late 1269 the cardinals allowed ...
In centuries past, the cardinals slept in corridors and rooms of the Apostolic Palace itself during the conclave ...
The conclave to select the next pope begins today, and a 22-year-old woman shares how doctors dismissed her stroke symptoms as vertigo.