After Pope Francis’ funeral, 135 cardinals will gather for a conclave to elect a new pope. The traditions include oaths of secrecy, paper ballots and white smoke from a chimney of the Sistine Chapel.

"Maine’s Sistine Chapel" or the South Solon Meeting House, in Waterville, Maine, is covered with 70-year-old fresco murals ...

From the outside, it looks like any other New England church building: a boxy, white structure with a single steeple ...

Pope Francis's death sets an ancient machinery into motion. Soon, with a puff of smoke, the last absolute monarchy in Europe ...

The recent launch of a website dedicated to frescoes in a Maine meeting house has created a new surge of interest in the ...

The interior was covered in such scenes from 1952 to 1956 and the walls ... The Great Flood is depicted as it was by Michelangelo at the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican. Two of the 13 artists ...