Every student of the Bible will be presumed to be familiar with the Great Sanhedrin that can be regarded as equivalent to the ...

From the location of the “place of skulls” to ancient Jewish burial rites, here’s what archaeologists do—and don’t—know about ...

Pope Francis' favorite painting was Marc Chagall's "White Crucifixion." Here's what the Nazi-era artwork teaches about the ...

The Getty Museum has bolstered its collection of Spanish works with a painting by 16th-century master Luis de Morales.

Archaeologists uncovered hidden inscriptions and graffiti left by medieval pilgrims on the walls of the Cenacle, the site of ...

In the hands of Baroque painters, the Genesis account of Isaac, Jacob, and Rebekah becomes more than a tale of deception — it ...

His heavily textured paintings brought him renown in the 1980s. In the ’90s, Nick Nolte played a character inspired by him in a Martin Scorsese film. By Richard Sandomir Chuck Connelly ...

Mel Gibson warned Jim Caviezel when they first discussed “The Passion of the Christ” that if he took the role of Jesus it could ruin his career, the 56-year-old actor said this week.

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A man named Cristo Jesus de Nasareth has an April 22 date in U.S. federal court after a magistrate judge in Texas ordered him held without bond on immigration ...

The earliest known Jesus mosaic inscription declaring Jesus as God, the Megiddo mosaic, was found under a prison in Israel.

Scientists have documented and analyzed 30 inscriptions and nine images marked onto the walls of the Last Supper Room in ...

It was Drew Christiansen, S.J., even more than Thoreau or Aquinas, whom I was surprised to encounter amid the German ...