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• As it marks 500th anniversary of Sistine Chapel frescoes, Vatican sees no need to cut visits
• Vatican may eventually limit Sistine Chapel visits
• Christian insurance participants losing coverage
• Factbox: Vatican may limit visitors to Sistine chapel

As it marks 500th anniversary of Sistine Chapel frescoes, Vatican sees no need to cut visits Posted: 31 Oct 2012 01:40 PM PDT VATICAN CITY - Five centuries after Michelangelo's ceiling of frescoes was inaugurated in the Sistine Chapel, Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday celebrated the "symphony of figures" contemplated during prayer.

Vatican may eventually limit Sistine Chapel visits Posted: 31 Oct 2012 10:51 AM PDT VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes turned 500 on Wednesday with the Vatican warning it may eventually limit visitors to protect one of the wonders of Western civilization. On October 31, 1512, only 20 years after the discovery of America, Pope Julius II said an evening vespers service to inaugurate the room where Michelangelo toiled for four years, much of it on his back, to finish his ceiling frescoes. The frescoes immediately became the talk of the town and have since become the talk of the world. ...

Christian insurance participants losing coverage Posted: 31 Oct 2012 10:31 AM PDT Members of a Christians-only health insurance plan will lose their coverage on Thursday under a judge's order to cease operations.Franklin County Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate found that Medi-Share doesn't ...

Factbox: Vatican may limit visitors to Sistine chapel Posted: 31 Oct 2012 08:11 AM PDT (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Wednesday that it may one day have to limit entrance to the Sistine Chapel if dust and other pollutants brought in by visitors threaten to take a toll on the Renaissance treasure. Here is a brief sketch of the Sistine chapel * The Sistine Chapel was commissioned by Pope Sixtus IV, from whom it derives its name, in 1475. It was designed to be - and still is - where Catholic cardinals hold conclaves to elect a new pope and was first used for that purpose after the death of Sixtus in 1484. ...

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