Influenced by Caravaggio, a rare work by the Baroque artist Diana de Rosa's fetched nearly half a million dollars at ...

Step inside the awe-inspiring Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, where Michelangelo’s legendary ceiling frescoes—including The ...

The scientific perspective offered by the album art forces the viewer to look through Lorde’s body, but we are also looking ...

Among the most enigmatic figures on screen, nuns have enjoyed renewed cinematic popularity and a delicious secularisation in ...

The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio, the blockbuster artist who revolutionized the use of ...

Luke’s gospel follows Matthew when in chapter 2.27 he names Mary as a virgin. However, controversy surrounds the translation of this phrase from the original Hebrew Bible into the Greek Septuagint.

Pope Francis died Monday at 88, ending a papacy marked by his focus on the poor, environmental concerns, and efforts to reform church governance.

VATICAN CITY, — World leaders and rank-and-file Catholic faithful bade farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral Saturday that highlighted his concern for people on the peripheries and reflected his ...

The Vatican has published the order of service for Pope Francis’s funeral. The booklet is 87 pages long and has copies of the service in English, Italian and Latin.

Pope Francis often prayed at the Salus populi Romani, a Byzantine-style painting that features an image of Mary, draped in a blue robe holding the infant Jesus (Image: AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) ...

Pope Francis often prayed at the Salus populi Romani, a Byzantine-style painting that features an image of Mary, draped in a blue robe holding the infant Jesus (Image: AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) ...