From the famous towers of San Gimignano and charming Pienza to Greve in the wine-making region of Chianti, there are plenty ...

An article that suggested ropes, not nails, held Jesus to the cross caused a firestorm. (RNS) — At the beginning of Holy Week ...

White Crucifixion” marked the start of a series of paintings in which he envisioned Christ as an emblem of Jewish persecution ...

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

An Easter event in Alberta, Canada, commemorated the suffering, death and Resurrection of the Savior through life-sized art ...

Volunteers from Rochester’s Holy Apostles Church have begun a project to refurbish the church’s century-old Stations of the ...

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

Close to 200 local Catholics once again began their Easter weekend on Good Friday, April 18, by watching as Centralia's St. Mary's and Chehalis' St. Joseph's Catholic parishes perform the Stations of ...

People worldwide mourned Pope Francis after he died Easter Monday at the age of 88. The big picture: Catholic churches around ...

Sacred art and icons—often believed to confer divine gifts and powers to the faithful—began to flourish in the Second Century ...

The bad, the good, and the downright ugly coalesce and pulsate there with an obstinacy and determination to survive, and some ...

Christians are celebrating Holy Week with processions and reenactments in places like Jerusalem, Brazil, Nigeria, India, ...