The last weeks of Ordinary Time focus on eschatology, the Last Things (death, judgment, heaven, hell). Before the post-Vatican II reform of the Lectionary (the Book of Biblical Readings for Mass), the ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgment,” the imposing fresco of heaven and hell which dominates the Sistine Chapel, is undergoing its first major restoration in three decades, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michelangelo’s 16th-century fresco ‘The Last Judgment.’ Michelangelo’s fresco of “The Last Judgment,” covering the wall behind the ...

The Church has always spoken of the Last Judgment on both the last Sunday in Ordinary Time and the First Sunday of Advent. Before the reform of the Roman Calendar in 1969, those two Sundays followed ...

Millions of visitors may have been damaging the Sistine Chapel’s “Last Judgement” over the years without knowing it. Now, restoration is underway to remove decades of tourist sweat from the ...

Michelangelo’s fresco of “The Last Judgment,” covering the wall behind the altar of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, is being restored. The work, which started on Feb. 1, 2026, is expected to ...

FILE - A visitor kneels in front of the Last Judgement fresco by the Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo inside the Sistine Chapel in Rome, May 3, 2021. (AP ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Michelangelo's "The Last Judgment," the imposing fresco of heaven and hell which dominates the Sistine Chapel, is undergoing its first major restoration in three decades, the ...