The subject of numerous controversies, she is defined by ambiguity, welcoming outcasts to the Church and provoking more imaginative approaches to faith.

Outside of Amsterdam, the Netherlands’ pancake-flat landscape is packed with exciting places to explore – and because they’re crammed into a pretty small area, you can usually cross a few ... painters ...

Today's "builders of Babel" are constructing a hell on earth, Pope Francis wrote in the meditations for the Way of the Cross.

Against the ancient backdrop of Rome’s Colosseum, thousands gathered Friday evening for the solemn Via Crucis procession, ...

Thousands of people recited prayers while carrying large wooden crosses and walking through the streets of the Old City of ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

Lent, as a season of penance and preparation, served as the perfect time to push myself out of my spiritual and physical ...

For me, there are three themes that I draw out of our tradition and that I emphasize in my preaching: solidarity, empathy and ...

ROME (CNS) -- Today's "builders of Babel" are constructing a hell on earth, rejecting everyone they decide are "losers," Pope ...

The Vatican — with its politics, its pageantry and its power — has long been a favorite subject for artists and thinkers.

Priests from around the world mourned the passing of Pope Francis at the Vatican April 21 while reflecting on the late ...

“He bore our sins (not his) in his body on the tree (of the Cross),” says Peter (1 Peter 2:24). “He was put to death for our trespasses,” says St Paul (Romans 4:25), “and raised for our ...