The Vatican has said that the pilgrimage to Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, can yield ‘spiritual benefits’ but refrained from calling the apparitions genuinely supernatural.

For museums and their public, Impressionism is the Goldilocks movement: not too old or too new, not too challenging or too ...

Vatican City is one of the world’s smallest countries but is home to the world’s largest church by interior size - the St ...

Unless you have looked at a picture to prepare yourself, at first sight the tomb of the Blessed Carlo Acutis, which stands in ...

Some believe the basilica on Vatican Hill was built over the martyred bones of the apostle Peter—but is that true? After ...

The painting is part of a series of frescoes that cover the walls and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.

I am writing this column before Election Day, though it will not be published until after that telling day that all votes are cast. So as I type now, I do not know what you know, well, now as you read ...

Pope Francis presided over the canonization Mass for 11 Christians martyred in 19th-century Syria and three founders of religious orders at the Vatican ... to the Virgin Mary, Consoler of the ...

From Istanbul's Blue Mosque to Paris’s Notre Dame, religious monuments have awed and amazed the masses for thousands of ...

Bearing witness to centuries of history, these Gothic, Romanesque or Baroque monuments are uniquely recognizable by their ...

The celebrations surrounding the millennium jubilee year of this Gothic architectural gem, which houses a relic of the Virgin ...

Insights Works of art are often targets for political dissent.  Thankfully, many art attacks can be painstakingly restored.  Some of these attacks are not meant to destroy but for attention.  Also: 2 ...