In the Middle Ages, the Roman Church replaced this idea of debt cancellation with the concept of plenary indulgence—an ...

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The capital city of Italy is Rome, a city that somehow comes together by way of the natural conjunction of history, culture, and ...

Easter is the moment when, perhaps more than any other time, cultural and religious traditions better communicate with one another.

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Michelangelo Buonarroti wasn’t a great painter, per his own admission, especially compared to his contemporaries and students ...

The overwhelming grandeur, scope and vision of Michelangelo’s miraculous Sistine Chapel ceiling and “The ... at William & Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art, lets us peek behind the artist ...

The Vatican on Tuesday launched new pastoral care guidelines for the protection and promotion of human life to mark the 30th anniversary of St. John Paul II’s encyclical letter Evangelium Vitae.

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