Finally, John’s birth and circumcision is itself described (1:57-80), crowned by Zechariah’s great canticle of joy, the Benedictus. In keeping with his distinctiveness, the birth of Jesus is featured ...

The Nativity with the Infant Saint John, by Piero di Cosimo, 1495-1505 © National Gallery of Art, Washington. Source: ...

More than 400 laypeople, clergy and men and women in consecrated life participated in the Archdiocesan Synod 2025: You Will Be My Witnesses Assembly June 7 at Cretin-Derham Hall in St. Paul.

GEORGE TOWN: While you stroll around enjoying the city’s Christmas night scenes and savouring its hawker food, pause at the gates of the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows in Jalan Macalister to view ...

The three kings present their gifts to Jesus in Sandro Botticelli's "The Adoration of the Magi" (ca 1478). Botticelli, a Florentine, created several well-known paintings of this scene, which was ...

The Nativity is pictured in the Basilica of Sant’Andrea della Valle in Rome. ... St. Cajetan, canonized in 1671, is often depicted in art holding the infant Jesus, ...

The painting re-emerged in the 1800s after centuries of obscurity, ... "Mystic Nativity" (1500), ... you might be more likely to think of the Birth of Venus than the Birth of Jesus.

Vatican City, Dec 13, 2024 / 12:50 pm. A Nativity scene made by artisans from Bethlehem was the source of controversy this week for including a Palestinian keffiyeh with the child Jesus in the ...

Artist Kelly Latimore’s “Tent City Nativity” (2022) depicts Jesus, Mary, ... Unlike many in the art world, we are not beholden to large corporations or billionaires.

Art World Nativity Scene Sparks Debate as Vatican Withdraws Keffiyeh-Clad Baby Jesus. The figure of the baby Jesus will be returned to the manger on December 24 but the keffiyeh may not be.

Pope Francis unveiled the nativity scene in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall. The nativity scene was created by Palestinian artists from Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem. The baby Jesus’s cradle is ...

Pope Francis prays in front of a Nativity Scene crafted in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, as he arrives for a meeting with the donors of the fir tree set up in St. Peter’s Square as a ...