Workers have completed a phase of conservation work on historic murals by the late artist Maxo Vanka at St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church near Pittsburgh. The vivid results underscore the ...

In 1954, which he had declared a special year of veneration to the Virgin Mary, Pope Pius XII started reciting in public a traditional Catholic midday ... scene is so pivotal in Christian dogma ...

Catholic families set it up on the Feast ... strength and even represents an ideal occasion to share a drink or traditional food, such as the famous tamales. Dismantling the Nativity Scene is also an ...

He fused traditional Catholic iconography with searing commentary ... One student group gathered beneath two contrasting dinner scenes. In one, a modest family prays over a simple meal of bread ...

The murals depict scenes with dualities ... in 1937 and 1941. He fused traditional Catholic iconography with searing commentary on war, capitalism, and immigrant labor and contrasting depictions ...