The People Church presented plans to buy the church and landmark the sanctuary, but former parishioners who fought for years ...

The Renaissance masterpiece, which portrays the Madonna holding the dead body of Jesus after ... him away from La Pietà. Before and after the restoration of La Pietà The chapel floor was littered with ...

In 2016, Hurricane Matthew knocked it over. The Leones and Kistel set the Jesus statue upright. In 2018, thousands of pounds of concrete balls and remnants from construction sites were dropped in the ...

The Texas House of Representatives has advanced a plan to erect an 8-foot pro-life statue on the Capitol ... intended the sculpture to depict Mary and Jesus. But now, placed on the grounds of ...

In the south of Italy, Matera is known as the “City of Stones” for its architecture. For the next season of “The Chosen,” it will be known as ancient Jerusalem.

Indeed, time has not always been generous to the stone Jesus, and repairs have been required as vandals have broken off pieces of the statue's hands. "In the late '80s it was vandalized and one of ...

Two masterpieces, centuries apart, reflect a theological insight centuries old: Mary was given not only to John, but to the ...

Finished after his death, the Florentine sculptor’s brilliant work in Venice surpassed Donatello’s Statue of Gattamelata and ...

For thousands of years, famous humans and events have been immortalized in marble or bronze in the form of statues. Nowadays, it may be less common to commission a bust of yourself, but Times ...

Bucking conventional wisdom, a controversial text has surfaced suggesting that Jesus Christ may have wed Mary Magdalene, a woman historically cast as a prostitute, and fathered two children with her.

U.S. gymnastics legend Mary Lou Retton faces a DUI charge after being arrested earlier this month in Marion County, W.Va. According to Magistrate Court of Marion County records, Retton was ...