Ahead of the election of the next pope, a chimney was installed atop the Sistine Chapel on Friday, which will help notify the ...

Preparations for the conclave to find a new pope accelerated Friday with the installation of the chimney out of the Sistine ...

Stoves have been installed in the Sistine Chapel that will generate smoke, marking the progress of the conclave's mission to choose a new pope.

Since the death of Pope Francis on April 21, interest has surged in the Oscar-winning film "Conclave" and its source novel, which dramatizes the intrigue behind the election of a new pope. "Sunday ...

Besides its masterpieces by Michelangelo, the Sistine Chapel is undergoing a makeover, involving the installation of a stove ...

Firefighters have fitted a chimney on top of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican in what is seen as a key moment in the preparation for the conclave.

The voting is highly choreographed and time-consuming to avoid any possibility of fraud or doubt about the results.

Workers enter the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City on May 2 to install a stove and chimney to be used for the election of a new pope. The ballots will be burned inside the stove, the smoke signaling ...

Vatican workers installed the simple stove in the Sistine Chapel where ballots will be burned during the upcoming conclave to ...

The universal church is on full display during the waiting-for-white-smoke period. Watchers who gather at St. Peter's Square ...

The Vatican's Sistine Chapel has been set up to host 133 Cardinal electors for the upcoming conclave to elect the 267th Pope.