The emancipation took place on June 19, 1865, two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation ...

Art, Faith, Sex and Controversy' investigates pop culture’s crypto-religious, uncanny symbols of immanence and transcendence.

An artwork, set in the middle of a temporary exhibition at Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art, is among the most powerful I ...

The Shakespeare scholar Clare Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, delivered the annual Allen Hall Lecture last week and ...

In today's Gospel, Jesus tells us: "Let what you say be simply "Yes" or "No". It is a striking call to integrity, not just in speech, but in the alignment between our words and our hearts. We all know ...

Sunday services of the Ames Friends Meeting are held at their meetinghouse on S Maple Avenue, marked by a sign in the front yard declaring “All are welcome.” I visited […] ...

Representation of non-Abrahamic religions and spiritual traditions, particularly in the mainstream comics universe, is ...

Christ the King Catholic Church, a historically Black parish in west Louisville ... Weathers-Washington sat down and wept — just like Jesus wept at the death of his friend, Lazarus.

Filipinos turned the streets of Manila to a sea of maroon and gold and swarmed the “Black Nazarene,” a life-sized image of Jesus Christ bearing ... Other devotees threw white towels at the ...

The figure of the baby Jesus will be returned to the manger on December 24 but the keffiyeh may not be. Jesus Christ displayed ... of the traditional black-and-white checkered scarf, which has ...

Artist DeVon Cunningham, whose image of a Black Jesus Christ in a Detroit Catholic church sparked national ... who is an artist and owner of POSH Art Gallery in Delray Beach, Fla.

USCCB data also shows that about 76 percent of Black Catholics attend predominantly white parishes. Still, Augustine said he remains hopeful because of a generation of Black Catholic youth and ...