Those who've been advocating for women deacons in the Catholic Church are taking stock of the possibility under the papacy of ...

Orthodox Christian art has almost nothing in common with its Catholic and Protestant counterparts despite the shared ...

On his first papal trip, he went to the Sanctuary of Our Mother of Good Counsel in the medieval ... the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome. That’s just three of a myriad Virgin Marys around ...

Well, what did you expect of medieval representations of the Saviour of the World and his Mother? Certainly not the rags and hovels that Jesus and ... charged image of the Virgin and Child ...

Antonio in Polesine in Ferrara, Italy, reveals that luxurious Islamic tents were used to conceal altars in medieval European ... from the lives of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ, but parts ...

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using ... scenes from the lives of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ. This later fresco has ...

Set during the rise of the Roman Empire, the stories create a radiant image ... Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus for centuries. Yet, in those times—even without getting into the plausibility of a ...

PARIS (AP) — A medieval statue of the Virgin Mary and Child, known as “The Virgin of Paris,” returned to Notre Dame Cathedral, five years after surviving the devastating 2019 fire that ...