Dan Gallio, spokesman for Sacred Heart, said handwritten notes by a former seminary director say three unidentified black men were seen by seminary staff painting Jesus’ face, hands and feet on ...

Black Jesus in his frame was too big to wrap, so we covered the painting in a sheet and stood it upright behind our grandmother’s couch, which was slipcovered in plastic and never sat upon. Not ...

No longer perpetually blond and blue-eyed, the Christian ideal of tolerance and inclusion is being depicted more often as what scholars agree he was: darker-skinned, with darker hair.