SAINTS & ART: May 29 marks more than a liturgical footnote: It’s the day a young priest named Montini began the journey to becoming St. Paul VI.

Paul VI, the pilgrim pope. ... a knife-wielding artist in the Philippines tried to stab him -- Africa and Latin America. In 1965, Paul became the first pope to visit the U.S., ...

A 50th anniversary took place recently which went widely unnoticed. On June 23rd, 1973 the Vatican Museums inaugurated their new Collection of Modern Religious Art. It was Giovanni Battista ...

(1978) Pope Paul VI died at 9:40 p.m. on Aug. 6 at the age of 80 after suffering a heart attack in his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Religion News Service file photo ...

For the second time in eight years, Nelson Shanks, the celebrated Old Master painter from Bucks County, is being interviewed about his portrait of a powerful person who just died. In 1997 the subje… ...

The gathering was held to mark the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Vatican Museum’s Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art. Inaugurated by Pope Paul VI in June 1973, the collection ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis praised artists on Friday as true visionaries who can see, dream and invent as he welcomed 200 artists, filmmakers and writers into the Sistine Chapel to mark ...