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

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

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