(The Conversation) — Michelangelo’s fresco of “The Last Judgment,” covering the wall behind the altar of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, is being restored. The work, which started on Feb. 1, 2026, ...

A cardinal brought a mobile phone inside the top-secret conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV last year in a massive security ...

During my sojourn in Florence this year, I spent countless hours walking through its narrow streets, standing before its great sculptures, and absorbing the atmosphere of a city that once nourished ...

The Last Judgement” is getting a facial, with restorers removing a chalky white film of salt that has accumulated over the ...

Ever since the Fall in the Garden of Eden, we were born to die (Adam and Eve chose death for all their descendants). But because of Jesus’ Sacrifice, because we live A.D., death is no longer the same.

Having children is intended to happen with social support, first from the father, who is more likely to stick around if he is married to the mother, and then from an expanding network: a village of ...

Under the relentless gaze of St. Peter being crucified upside down, painted by Michelangelo between 1545 and 1550, Pope Leo and the curial cardinals are currently following the sermons of ...

"I honestly didn’t think I would ever see him, so it’s really cool that I get to see him, especially this early in my life," ...

Marco Rubio’s Munich speech presented the West not merely as an alliance of interests but as a shared cultural inheritance, ...

Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel fresco has been cleaned for the first time in decades after human sweat damaged the painting.