A 700-year-old fresco discovered in the convent church of S. Antonio in Polesine in Ferrara, Italy, reveals that luxurious ...

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. The 700-year-old fresco is thought to be the only ...

Harold Godwinson was the “last Anglo-Saxon King of England,” the university said, and the exact location of the royal home ...

A roll of linen cloth with wool embroidery depicting scenes from the 11th century Where it is from: Bayeux Cathedral in Normandy, France When it was made: The late 11th century Related: Bad Dürrenberg ...

A priest in the Diocese of Brooklyn who has been asked to pray at the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump is describing the experience — which includes a personal friendship with the ...

Father Emmanuel “Manny” Torres, associate pastor at Christ the King Church in Little Rock and St. Francis of Assisi Church in Little Italy, has been fascinated by art for as long as he can remember.

The Vatican has approved new guidelines from Italian bishops that allow gay men to enter seminaries as long as they abstain from sex, in an unexpected adjustment to how the global Catholic Church ...

There’s one other amusing constant that - like many parts of Type-Moon lore - could be a franchise in itself, and it's this: if there is a priest in any of these stories, they are always armed ...

Stunning medieval wall paintings inside France’s Angers Cathedral remained hidden for centuries. But now, for the first time, conservators from the University of Cambridge’s Hamilton Kerr Institute ...

In a Jan. 10 article on the subject, The New York Times trumpeted that the “Vatican allows Italian gay men to train to be priests, if they remain celibate,” adding that “candidates for the ...

The Italian Episcopal Conference, the group of Roman Catholic bishops in Italy, approved a document at its 78th General Conference in 2023 titled "The formation of priests in churches in Italy.

The objective of the preparation for a candidate who is seeking to become a priest when it comes to his sexuality, the document states, "is the ability to accept as a gift, to freely choose and to ...