A Virginia Catholic bishop says the desecration of the main altar in St. Peter’s Basilica on Friday points to a larger ...

A mural behind the altar showing artistic depictions of Catholic activists who were killed in land disputes in Brazil was covered by the vicar, who claimed that “most churchgoers don’t like to see ...

In the niche that is part of the altarpiece above the altar, an image of the Virgin Mary can be seen although without a doubt ...

Christians in medieval Europe admired Islamic art without fully realising it ... It is already known that medieval churches used precious textile hangings to conceal the altar from view either ...

The pontiff addressed the topic of marriage’s indissolubility, or permanence, in a meeting with members of the Roman Rota ... Hannah Brockhaus is Catholic News Agency’s senior Vatican ...

Kate Quiñones is a staff writer for Catholic News Agency and a fellow of the College Fix. She has been published by the Wall Street Journal, the Denver Catholic Register, and CatholicVote ...

Christians in medieval Europe admired Islamic art without fully realising it ... centuries to represent a canopy placed over the high altar. The artist transformed the apse into a tent comprising ...

its leaders wanted to make a concrete connection with the Catholic Church. They settled for granite, as in a granite altar that had been in St. John the Evangelist church of St. Gabriel in Hopkins ...

In the best restaurants along the Bosphorus strait Roman Abramovich’s high dining is setting tongues wagging as much as it once did in London. “I love Abramovich so much,” enthuses Omer ...

Fact-checking website AFP confirmed that the 33-second clip, which shows large crowds of people sleeping outside, was filmed during World Youth Day in Lisbon, not during any disaster in the United ...

Monday’s inaugural events took an unexpected turn when Elon Musk, the influential CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, made an apparent Nazi salute, or “Roman salute,” during inaugural events for President Donald ...

According to The Art Newspaper, Cayir said that the settlement could have been anything from a farming town to a Roman outpost, but whoever controlled the site displayed “an expression of power ...