Cardinal Tolentino believes art can heal and rehabilitate, as projects bring hope and beauty to prisons worldwide for Holy ...

Maffeo Barberini lived up to the lofty expectations of his aristocratic parents by being elected pope in 1623 ... Merisi da Caravaggio and the work he painted, of a quietly vigorous 30-year ...

But Michelangelo could not refuse the demands of a Pope. In 1508 he began. The art of fresco was infamous ... assistants for the most demanding work but sometimes would have to destroy a whole ...

Pope Francis marked the Immaculate Conception by visiting to two of Rome’s most important Marian sites, followed by an ...

Art, particularly pyrography (woodburning), became a form of therapy for the teenager, her family said. Her mother Natasha Pope said: "I don't speak about my daughter in the past tense - I utter ...

After Vatican Visit, Blinken Praises Pope Francis's Work on LGBTQ Rights VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday praised Pope Francis for his work on LGBTQI ...