Travel and culture host Burt Wolf explores the far-reaching influence, rich 2,000-year history, and future course of the papal office. Granted extraordinary access to the Vatican and its archives by church authorities, he visits the 1st-century tomb of St. Peter, tours St. Peter's Basilica, beholds the artistry and preservation and restoration secrets of the Sistine Chapel, witnesses the spectacle of two million pilgrims arriving to bid farewell to Pope John Paul II, and gets an insider's perspective on the process of electing a new pontiff.