THE FACE OF JESUS is a 69-minute Polish documentary, with two bonus features, which discusses three ancient artifacts, ...

Madonna, Scorsese, Warhol and “Piss Christ” play roles in Paul Elie’s maybe-too-comprehensive look at how divisive ...

I traveled to Rome to accept an award for my recently published novel, The Accidental Jesus. The event would cap this year’s ...

In “The Last Supper,” Paul Elie explores how controversies over artists like Sinéad O’Connor and Keith Haring paved the way ...

Some said Paul Gauguin was a monster, and others said he was a master. Sue Prideaux implies he was both in her book Wild ...

Ronald Reagan's election sparked a counterrevolution in the arts community, with Dylan, Bono and Scorsese among those showing ...

Director Donald Rice—son of lyricist Tim Rice—celebrates the original album by focusing on music in an artfully-staged ...

ROME -- The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio, the blockbuster artist who revolutionized the use of ...

Religious scholars and political pundits are asking if (and how far) the new Pope Leo XIV will advance the Church, and ...

White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica rang out on Thursday, signaling that a new pope—the 267th leader of the Catholic Church—had been ...

Francis tenaciously clung to the challenging words of the gospel, which were the lens through which he viewed the world. We ...