Workers have completed a phase of conservation work on historic murals by the late artist Maxo Vanka at St. Nicholas Croatian ...

Art conservation technician Christiana Cichra works on touching up a portion of the Lion, symbol of the Gospel of St. Mark, ...

The Rev. David Tracy, who died on April 29, was a monumental figure in American Catholicism, renowned as a teacher, scholar, ...

The tradition of icon painting began to develop simultaneously with the development of Christianity. In the modern era, avant ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV ’s inaugural Mass on Sunday morning in St. Peter’s Square and Basilica is a ritual filled with symbolism ... as head of the Catholic Church.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost made history by becoming the first Roman Catholic pope from North America ... Peter Paul Rubens/The Metropolitan Museum of Art Martin Luther was one of the key ...

A professor of Catholic studies and an ordained Roman Catholic ... that “religion’s closest cousin is not rigid logic but art,” and that “real religion does not give final answers; it ...

The death of Pope Francis has billions wondering who will succeed him – and what direction he will take the Catholic Church ... was during John Paul II, but meaning speaking truth also to ...

I cried at the depth of understanding. We never know how our Catholic symbols and art affect visitors who see them, but they form our identity; and kitsch is just as important as fine art ...

The art features traditional and interpretative ... Her response for critics who accuse her of using Catholic symbols to promote her ideology? “Of course, that’s what I’m doing,” Carmona ...

A careful reader will come to understand her meaning. Read’s 100 commentaries simply offer a helping hand — perhaps a bit of history, pertinent biography, or context — for interested readers. There ...