This year marks a special anniversary in my life: my decision to join the Catholic Church, and one I have never regretted.

As the Catholic Church celebrates Laetare Sunday, some priests wear rose-colored vestments. But why do they wear this color ...

The Archdiocese of Denver launched the public portion of its nine-year novena that will usher in the extraordinary Jubilee Year 2033. The year will mark exactly 2,000 years from when Christians ...

When observing fine works of art, we don’t even touch them at all ... For in the holy Eucharist, the Catechism of the Catholic Church notes, "Christ, God and man, makes himself wholly and ...

In an exclusive extract from his new book for Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series, Cambridge Historical Geography professor ...

Discover how New Orleans' cultural blend created jazz through 7 pivotal developments, from Congo Square gatherings to Louis ...

comprise an authentic and complete example that remains with us of this art created at St Denis, and which marked the advent of an original mode of plastic expression, known as the Gothic style. A ...

For over a thousand years, basilicas have been stages for history. Charlemagne knelt in St. Peter’s Basilica to be crowned ...

These final resting places are noteworthy for their displays of devotion, over-the-top imagery, and/or their famous residents.

Something has been missing in America’s cultural and political discourse for a long time. It’s not just morality. It’s not ...

The Catholic Church may have been the church of the majority of ... and statues, relics and works of art were seized and sometimes destroyed. Such iconoclasm caused considerable concern at official ...

Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have been pouring into the medieval hilltop town of Assisi in Italy to venerate the ...