New research has overturned conventional wisdom about the provenance of artist’s famed painting Adoration of the Shepherds ...

From glow-in-the-dark rosary beads to St. Christopher dashboard statues and Pope Francis bobbleheads, a tribute to the ...

Created around 1503, the painting—which just sold at auction for $3.1 million—depicts the saint after the crucifixion of Jesus, when she entered a period of repentance Eli Wizevich History ...

The Catholic VP offered a theological defense of his “America First” immigration policies. Pope Francis had some notes.

Tucked above depictions of Adam and Eve, the haunting images of Cain and Abel in the Ghent Altarpiece underscore the wages of ...

His years illustrating pulp novels honed his sense of pictorial drama, and his meticulous research ensured historical accuracy, notably in his Civil War paintings. By Corey Kilgannon Mort ...

When observing fine works of art, we don’t even touch them at all. When we hold a baby or hug a loved one ... the living sacramental presence of Jesus Christ, this should be true all the ...

Death is always tragic, particularly when it occurs on a person's date of birth, and there are many famous people who have ...

Born to an Ashkenazi Jewish mother and an Afro-Cuban Jamaican father, Bellamy was raised in Whittier, just southeast of Los Angeles. In glowing oil paintings, she draws from personal mementos like ...

Shutterstock The Only Medieval Art Museum in America Sitting high above Manhattan in Fort Tryon Park, The Cloisters looks out ...

Perhaps most recognizable as a Hawaiian hello, Aloha has a far deeper meaning: "love." The word is used in many contexts to ...

Food historian Liz Williams told the Associated Press last year that the roots of king cake culture date to Saturnalia ...