The recently restored Ponte Sant'Angelo in Rome features ten angels holding symbols of Christ's Passion, creating a profound ...

Unable to attend the Good Friday ceremony in person for the third consecutive year, the pope offered deep meditations for the ...

In Catholic tradition, saints are to be revered, but not worshipped. Thus, Anderson said, artistic renderings of canonized ...

The National Gallery presents another blockbuster exhibition in celebration of its 200th anniversary exploring the vibrant new way of painting that developed in early 14th century Siena. The rigidity ...

The Season of Lent which was started on Ash Wednesday with imposition of ashes on our foreheads marking ourselves with the ...

We generally like it when art bridges worlds like this, when it has cross-cultural or ... “Why are they mourning Uncle Fred like he was an angel, not a pervert?”) Later, the abject widow ...

The Limbourg brothers, Herman, Paul, and Jean, born between 1385 and 1388, were Dutch painters from Nijmegen, but they were ...

Midshipmen at the U S Merchant Marine Academy erupted in raucous applause last week when Secretary of Transportation Sean ...

From the location of the “place of skulls” to ancient Jewish burial rites, here’s what archaeologists do—and don’t—know about ...

For me, there are three themes that I draw out of our tradition and that I emphasize in my preaching: solidarity, empathy and ...

For years, Nobuhiro Doi resisted calls for Japanese banks to end the long-standing practice of holding shares in their corporate clients. Now the 68-year-old president of Kyoto Financial Group Inc ...