One early project was to document Bach’s “Missae Breves,” or short masses, among which is the Missa 1733, the source of the ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered “sensational” artifacts beneath a historic monastery in Poland — offering a glimpse into ...

With “P’unchaw,” the photographer Victor Zea captures the light falling on Cuzco, Peru, where people have mixed Catholic and ...

Here in Basel, you’re literally taken into the painting; you enter the image with your whole body, as it navigates and ...

Of all the community members out enjoying the summer weather this weekend, hundreds did so on the grounds of the Basilica of ...

The Global Baroque exhibition highlights 17th-century Rome as a vibrant crossroads of cultures under Pope Paul V. Through ...

The Basilica of St. Mary Major is one of the first churches dedicated to the Virgin Mary. This church is where Francis was buried on April 26. What is a bond of spiritual affinity.

One Mary, a myriad titles According to the Gospel, Mary is the mother of Jesus — and the mystery of the incarnation of the son of God through her is central to Christian dogma.

There are three major categories of titles for Mary — first, those related to dogma and major events in her life. The Assumption on Aug. 15, for instance, celebrates Mary being taken body and ...

The image of Our Mother of Good Counsel is displayed in the Basilica ... for Mary is precisely “mother of God,” or Theotokos in the original Greek. It was chosen after heated theological debate in the ...