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Pope Francis' favorite painting was Marc Chagall's "White Crucifixion." Here's what the Nazi-era artwork teaches about the ...
The Getty Museum has bolstered its collection of Spanish works with a painting by 16th-century master Luis de Morales.
And she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet. They said to ...
Reflection on the lithograph In this lithograph, Maurice Denis offers a contemporary interpretation of the Supper at Emmaus. We see Christ seated at the table, blessing the bread. Opposite him sits ...
Faithful and nuns gather by the statue of Pope Pius IX, inside in St. Mary Major basilica, where Pope Francis will be buried, ...
From the location of the “place of skulls” to ancient Jewish burial rites, here’s what archaeologists do—and don’t—know about ...
What if faith means having our questions, and yet following Jesus, not in spite of them, but because of them? That's what Easter is all about.
Replete with paintings, stories ... Another eye-opener is the iconic verse “Jesus wept,” which I had long felt to be a sign of love for His friend Lazarus, His grief a sign of shared humanity ...
In Mexico's artisan coppersmithing town of Santa Clara del Cobre, the late Jesús Pérez Ornelas taught a generation to create ...
Francis stopped by the basilica on his way home from the Gemelli hospital on March 23, after his 38-day hospital stay, to ...