Conservative Catholics have lashed out against a “dangerous” and “blasphemous” church nativity scene in Italy that features two mothers of the baby Jesus instead of Mary and Joseph figurines.

A Christmas nativity scene depicts Jesus, Mary, and Joseph separated and caged, as if asylum seekers detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, at Claremont United Methodist Church on ...

Mary stands on the left, cloaked in robes, with long, hair, her hands folded to her chest in prayer. Her proper left foot stands on the neck of a snake, a rose at its head. Joseph stands on the right, ...