ROME -- The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio, the blockbuster artist who revolutionized the use of ...

Steve Carell, Cory Michael Smith, Ramy Youssef and Jason Schwartzman star in a movie about a meeting of massively wealthy men ...

On one side, we have Christians who sneer at apologetics, saying that no one ever believes because of it, that it’s only good ...

Pope Francis died during the run-up to the 10th anniversary of his signing the groundbreaking, earthmoving papal encyclical ...

New Testament scholar N T Wright recently weighed in on questions surrounding suicide and the afterlife, stressing he does ...

Creation, ultimately, is a conversation — with time, with nature, with grief, with beauty, with God. And in that conversation, we become human. We become more ourselves. Perhaps, that is true ...

With one of the most celebrated songbooks behind him, Paul McCartney found himself pushed toward a new way of working on one critically praised album.

Known as the land of a thousand islands, Croatia’s Dalmatia and Kvarner archipelagoes offer an abundance of coastal ...

The unvirginal hands of a gay man decorated the walls and ceilings the most famous church in the world: the Sistine Chapel.

Throughout the history of art, great masters have captured not only beauty in their works, but also secrets. Some did it to ...

Translation, with sensitivity and imagination, is literary creation. As Vishnu Khare said, “Translating great literature ...