(THE CONVERSATION) For over 40 years, six people from Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, have claimed to see and speak with the Virgin Mary. For almost as long, hordes of pilgrims have ...

The celebrations surrounding the millennium jubilee year of this Gothic architectural gem, which houses a relic of the Virgin ...

The exhibit, which makes its way to Houston after stops at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe and the Metropolitan Museum of Art ... clay Nativity set made by her aunt, Mary ...

The Madonna della Pietà, otherwise known as Pietà, is a Carrara marble sculpture of Jesus and Mary at Mount Golgotha representing the "Sixth Sorrow" of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Michelangelo ...

Rotblatt Amrany Studio artists Lou Cella and Jessica LoPresti collaborated in 2022 on the bronze sculpture of “Chicago’s ...

cofounder of the Family of Mary, was reached by a three-judge ecclesiastical tribunal Sept. 18 and approved by Pope Francis Oct. 11. The decision was then formalized by the Vatican’s Dicastery ...

Initially, it was founded as a benevolent religious association to help churches persecuted by communism during the Cold War when many priests behind the Iron Curtain ended up in prison.

Stefano Costantino / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images The Vatican’s famous Apollo Belvedere—a marble statue of the Greek god of archery, music and dance—is finally back on public ...

The statue of the Virgin chosen by the Vatican to represent hope during the opening of the Jubilee comes from Battipaglia, a center particularly renowned for buffalo mozzarella. The 19th-century ...

On Tuesday, the restoration of one of the Vatican Museums‘ most prized artworks was unveiled. The Apollo Belvedere is a marble sculpture of the eponymous Greek god dating back to the 2nd century CE.