A restorer with the Vatican Museums touches up a wall fresco in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican May 2, 2025,. Behind the restorer, workers prepare to build platforms over a protective covering ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Exit tourists. Enter cardinals. The Vatican has closed the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather for the conclave to elect the next pope after the death of Pope Francis ...

VATICAN CITY, — Preparations for the conclave to find a new pope accelerated Friday with the installation of the chimney out of the Sistine Chapel that will signal the election of a successor to ...

FILE – Visitors admire the Sistine Chapel inside the Vatican Museums on the occasion of the museum’s reopening, in Rome, May 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file) ...

VATICAN CITY, — Preparations for the conclave to find a new pope accelerated Friday with the installation of the chimney out of the Sistine Chapel that will signal the election of a successor to ...

VATICAN CITY, — Preparations for the conclave to find a new pope accelerated Friday with the installation of the chimney out of the Sistine Chapel that will signal the election of a successor to ...

VATICAN CITY, — Preparations for the conclave to find a new pope accelerated Friday with the installation of the chimney out of the Sistine Chapel that will signal the election of a successor to ...

VATICAN CITY, — Preparations for the conclave to find a new pope accelerated Friday with the installation of the chimney out of the Sistine Chapel that will signal the election of a successor to ...

VATICAN CITY, — Preparations for the conclave to find a new pope accelerated Friday with the installation of the chimney out of the Sistine Chapel that will signal the election of a successor to ...

VATICAN CITY, — Preparations for the conclave to find a new pope accelerated Friday with the installation of the chimney out of the Sistine Chapel that will signal the election of a successor to ...