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The Sistine Chapel with a metal framework and protective layer on the floor, and the fresco “The Last Judgement” on the far wall.

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A Second Floor Level Is Being Built in the Sistine Chapel to Protect the Historic Pavement During the Conclave

A False Floor Goes Up in the Sistine Chapel, and Then We Shall Be Told: Heaven forbid, no under-the-carpet manoeuvres! The floor of the Sistine Chapel has been covered with a protective layer, and a platform is being erected on top of it to serve as a second

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Book against the papacy by Huguenot pastor Steverslot, published in Holland in 1720

A Robo-Pope in an Engraving from an Anti-Catholic Publication of the Eighteenth Century. A book of 1720 with the witty title "Pope's Porridge Served on the Dishes of the Huguenots, Considering the Papal Rise, Idolatry and Abuses in the Veneration of Images, as well as

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The photographer's work was far harder and far more interesting before the invention of drones

A photograph from the book Inside the Vatican, on the life of the theocratic state under John Paul II, with photographs by James Stanfield

Medieval miniature: a man in a tall tiara raises a spear over a man lying by a red tent, with blood visible below.

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Two versions of the death of Pope John XII, regarded as the most immoral pope

Pope John XII, who occupied the throne from 955 to 964, is said by some sources to have died after being caught in bed with another man's wife, whereupon the jealous husband beat him quite literally to death. This is one version of a most respectable end, but

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I agree with the view that the ostentatious modesty of the papacy, and of Francis's pontificate in particular, turns out, once you start looking into it, to be nothing more than a set of marketing ploys and slogans

The phenomenon is nicely captured in the series “The Young Pope” with Jude Law, in which one of the most important figures in the hierarchy is not a spiritual office at all but something like a PR director

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Pope Francis buried in Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome's oldest church of the Virgin Mary

Before Santa Maria Maggiore, where Pope Francis was laid to rest yesterday, there were, naturally, queues many hours long. It is one of the four major basilicas of Rome, but despite its pilgrimage status, large queues did not usually gather here outside the church festivals. Now, I suspect, the beaten

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Biden, the second Catholic US president after Kennedy, attends Pope Francis's funeral

Biden, the second Catholic US president after Kennedy, attended the funeral of Pope Francis. In rather good health, compared with his time in office

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Funeral of Pope Francis in the Vatican on 26 April and burial at Santa Maria Maggiore

How the funeral of Pope Francis went today, 26 April 2025. Pope Francis died on the morning of 21 April in the Vatican of a stroke and heart failure. In the evening the rite of certifying death and placing the body in the coffin was performed. On 22 April official

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Pope Francis Is Buried Today

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The Red Wind in Rome on the day of Pope John Paul II's funeral, 8 April 2005

On 8 April 2005, the day of Pope John Paul II's funeral, a sudden strong wind fell upon Rome, and for a time the Vatican became one solid human mass shaken by the gusts of the elements. The phenomenon went down in history as the Red Wind. Red,

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Before taking his degrees in philosophy and theology, Pope Francis took a degree in food chemistry

Before taking his degrees in philosophy and theology, Pope Francis took a degree in food chemistry. The subject of food production, papal-style, is explored in the book “Tavola con Papa Francesco” (“A Table with Pope Francis”), “tavola” meaning the gathering around the table.

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