In a homily read by Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, artists were urged to be “witnesses to the revolutionary vision of the Beatitudes.” ...

Be it unique painting techniques or flourishing artists like da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli ... Giovanni Bellini’s ‘St. Francis in Ecstasy’ is a minimal painting with soft, serene elements ...

One of the first to argue that “The Battle of Anghiari” might still exist behind one of Vasari’s paintings was Carlo Pedretti, who made the case in his 1968 book “Leonardo da Vinci Inedito.” ...

A visitor takes a photo of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa", at the Louvre museum. The Mona Lisa is to get its own new room at the Louvre art museum in Paris, allowing it to be shown off to even ...

But one radical misfit in particular, Francis of Assisi, seems to loom larger—and provoke greater fascination—than any other. His life story, shrouded in legend, continues to inspire many ...

In 1995, I interviewed Matthew Coon Come, who served as grand chief of the Grand Council of the Cree in Quebec. The Cree and Inuit have rights over the northern two-thirds of Quebec and rejected ...

A fire damaged a home in St. Francis early Monday morning, Jan. 27. It happened near Howard Avenue and Iowa Avenue. The occupants have reportedly found temporary housing. ST. FRANCIS ...

His grandmother had two statues on her mantle: St. Anthony and Franklin Delano ... was placed in the auditorium of the Leonardo Da Vinci Art School in New York (Wikimedia Commons/National Archives ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Pope Francis delivers the Angelus noon prayer in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025 ...

Leonardo DiCaprio's real-life serial killer movie is back on track, more than ten years after it was first announced. The long-awaited project later added director Martin Scorsese to the team in ...

On the 39th anniversary of their Super Bowl XX rout of New England, the Bears received an homage of sorts. Or at least Mike Ditka did. Matthew McConaughey did his best Ditka imitation with ...

United States Border Czar Tom Homan has criticised Pope Francis over his criticism of President Donald Trump's deportation policies. In a televised interview, Homan accused Pope Francis of ...