Under the frescoes painted by Michelangelo, cardinals will elect the successor to Pope Francis at the Sistine Chapel as the conclave begins today. This papal chapel has a long and storied history dati

Following a special mass in St Peter’s Basilica, a group of cardinals will go into the Sistine Chapel where they will have no contact with the outside world until white smoke rises into the air in Vat

As the conclave gets underway, eyes are searching for the billowing white smoke that signals Habemus Papam: “We have a pope.”