Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín, who welcomed the decision to fly flags at half-mast over public buildings, said there should be an official period of mourning, pointing to steps taken in Spain, Cuba and ...

Wearing white vestments, the pope processed into the Sistine Chapel and blessed the cardinals as he approached the altar and Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgement ... old student, said at a ...

The corpus of Catholic churches includes many buildings old and new of the first importance ... Michelangelo Buonarroti both on the Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel and in bringing coherence ...

The cardinals opened the secretive, centuries-old ritual Wednesday afternoon ... gaze of the stern Christ depicted in Michelangelo's Last Judgement fresco, which adorns the chapel.

The cardinals opened the secretive, centuries-old ritual Wednesday afternoon ... perpetual secrecy under the gaze of the stern Christ depicted in Michelangelo's Last Judgement fresco, which adorns the ...