A powerful symbol. With their soft, ethereal tones, the harp, lyre and zither have long held a place in the collective imagination as favored companions of poetic expression and prayer.

The 124 projects in 33 dioceses receiving funds related to historic works of art, stained-glass windows, church bells, medieval graffiti, and an 18th-century Bible famous for its misprints. The ...

Of course, theologies grounded in reason as well as works of art ... medieval genre known as the mystery play. These dramas consisted of cycles of pageants depicting major stories from the Bible ...

The motto that Francis selected for his papacy, ‘looking at him with mercy, he chose him,’ was inspired by Caravaggio’s ...

Traditional Judaism believes in Geihinom or Gehenna. Really bad sinners go there after death for up to 12 months to become ...

Many people assume the Pope’s pointed hat has some hidden or mysterious origins, but its real history is even more ...

David Tracy, an influential Catholic theologian who taught for 37 years at the University of Chicago Divinity School, has ...

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DOOM: The Dark Ages — a battle hymn in the style of the forefather of all shooters, but on parchment, written in blood and ...

Stop giving us a reason to still be out here,” says George Floyd Square protest leader Marcia Howard. ”Give me a reason to go ...

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