To honor the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Vatican offers a special Marian pilgrimage within St. Peter’s Basilica each Saturday afternoon during the month of May. The Marian itinerary brings pilgrims from ...

For religious Christians, Christmas is all about Jesus Christ. But his mother Mary was busy, too, giving birth. Over the centuries, Mary became one of the most popular figures of Christendom. Yet she ...

St. Mary's Cathedral in Linz made headlines around the world as a controversial sculpture of Mary displayed inside the church was beheaded July 1 by unknown vandals. The sculpture, depicting the ...

Blair Gordy Piras is a sacred artist from Louisiana. In 2017, she served as the first artist in residence at Franciscan University of Steubenville, her alma mater. Her art has been featured in ...

Esther Strauß's "Crowning" on view at St. Mary's Cathedral in Linz, Austria, before it was beheaded (all photos © Ulrich Kehrer, courtesy Linz Diocese) A sculpture ...

Artist Philip Colbert displays his modern reimagining of "The Manchester Madonna" next to the original housed at London's National Gallery. A contemporary artist who crams his canvases full of pop ...

LOS ANGELES (RNS) — 'Whenever you see a virgencita you feel safe. You know that your people, your gente, your raza are around,' said Oscar Rodriguez Zapata. LOS ANGELES (RNS) — There’s nothing that ...

Byzantine art placed the Virgin Mary, or Theotokos, at the heart of devotion, with icons acting as visual and spiritual bridges to the divine. These sacred works, rich in symbolism, were integral to ...