As He prayed, something extraordinary happened: "the appearance of his face changed." In that moment, Jesus heard his ...

Veronica - Bernice, in the Greek tradition - embodies the universal yearning of the devout men and women of the Old Testament, the yearning of all believers to see the face of God. On Jesus' Way ...

Visiting the National Gallery of Art in Washington during Lent is always an enriching experience, but a recently acquired ...

The Jewish holiday of Purim, celebrated March 13-14, is considered holier than Yom Kippur, yet it’s a story of survival where ...

Hands clasped in joy, face framed by a wimple, she could with equal élan propose that Dutch Golden Age painter Gerard ter ...

There has been plenty of good news for country music fans in 2025, but there has been heartbreak, too. A handful of legendary ...

Like many women artists of earlier centuries whose work has survived, Artemisia came from a family of artists. Born in Rome in 1593, she was the oldest and most artistically inclined child of the ...

At the start of Lent, Denver Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila announced the theme of the daily prayer, which is directed to the ...

A painting portraying Benjamin Netanyahu as Adolf Hitler has been removed from a London art fair amid outrage and the outrage ...

A family with longtime ties to the Canandaigua area has been working hard to raise awareness about a statue that holds a ...

Scholars say that Jesus celebrated it in the unnamed feast ... without miracles or external pressure – choosing faith in the face of uncertainty. Purim shows a path where omitting an explicit ...

For many years now, I have gradually and quietly become what you may call “spiritually independent.” I’m now in my early seventies, and my personal faith practice is now beyond “religion.” To put it ...