The Room of Tears: Where new popes go right after their election

Behind an inconspicuous door in the Sistine Chapel there is a special place: the first load often falls from newly chosen popes.

The Room of Tears: Where Cardinal Robert Prevost became Pope Leo XIV

VATICAN // Tucked behind the Sistine Chapel, the Stanza delle Lacrime (“Room of Tears”) is one of the Vatican’s most intimate and emotionally charged – yet… The post The Room of Tears: Where Cardinal Robert Prevost became Pope Leo XIV appeared first on CatholicVote org.

A space hidden in the Sistine Chapel serves as the first site the new Pontiff steps on after his election.There he lives one of the most intimate and symbolic moments of the papacy.This room, known as the room of tears, remains closed and discreet to the left of the main altar, behind the monumental fresco of the Last Judgment, in the heart of the Vatican.Who is Pietro Parolin?The cardinal who negotiated with China, Cuba and Chávez and sounds li…

Before the newly elected Pope gives the first blessing to his pontificate on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, he has to put in an intermediate station

The Room of Tears: Where new popes go right after their election

Vestments rest in the Room of Tears at the Sistine Chapel ahead of the conclave to elect the next pope, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, May 7, 2025 / 13:00 pm (CNA). When Pope Leo XIII was elected in 1878, the story goe... [...]

On the wall of the Last Judgment of the Sistine Chapel, on the sides of the altar, there are two small closed doors. The one on the left leads to the ...