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

Many artists, including Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, has explored abstinence in their work Earlier this month ...

Around 2,000 years since the crucifixion, Jesus Christ has returned once again - this time as an AI influencer.

COMMENT: Writing exclusively for The Independent, former Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby recalls his meetings with Pope ...

Before he became Pope Francis, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was a devotee of La Virgen Desatanudos — Mary the untier of ...

As the global conversation on race, faith, and representation deepens, a bold question is emerging from both pews and pulpits ...

His public persona may have been the humble and patient father figure, but Francis spent his 12 years as pope reorganizing the Vatican bureaucracy — the Roman curia — with more than a touch of ...

Many still believe it to be the burial cloth of Jesus, despite radiocarbon analysis ... one of the crowning masterpieces of Renaissance art. In February 2015 conservation began of the Hall of ...

President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine are among the world leaders who plan to attend the funeral. The ...

The test of these changes. — some of which were only finalized three years ago — will come in the closed-door power brokering that goes on around the conclave, which will elect a new pope. The process ...

I will never forget the first time I met the Pope in 2013. I had never met a Pope before and was on edge. The Vatican is ...