“Among the great painters, I admire Caravaggio; his paintings speak to me,” Francis said, per the Times. The paper also noted ...

As protesters called for the removal of Confederate statues in the U.S., activist Shaun King went further, suggesting that murals and artwork depicting “white Jesus” should “come down.” As a European ...

Excerpt from the new book 'Sister, Sinner,' by Claire Hoffman, about the life and mysterious disappearance of 1920s evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson.

And they sat below a copy of Carlo Maratta’s late-17th-century painting The Baptism of Christ (Francis ... the world view a Maratta painting of Jesus – and the two mortals below it ...

More than 250,000 people paid their respects to the pontiff at his funeral in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican said ...

Pope Francis was the first pontiff elected from the Society of Jesus — also known as the Jesuits ... the United States ...

The sixth word Christ utters from the cross brings us to the death of the Lord Jesus, crucified for our ... I say, ‘Thou art my God’” (Psalm 31:11-14). St. John Paul the Great spoke of ...

His relationship with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament inspired ... (Photo: Courtesy of Gloria Morandi) Staffinati has reflected on the same famous phrase, observing, “I believe this is very ...

With no aides present, the precise contours of what the two men discussed underneath a massive painting of Jesus’s baptism remain closely held. Only cursory readouts were provided afterward.