For modern skeptics, the 6th-century icon hanging in the Orthodox monastery in the shadow of Mount Sinai is simply a 33-by-18-inch board covered in bees wax and colored pigments. For believers, this ...

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For more than 45 years, the Knights of Columbus Pilgrim Icon Program has brought sacred images to Catholic parishes around the world for prayer and devotion. On Jan. 3, the Knights launched a new ...

Five pieces of burned Communion bread were discovered in Turkey. One of the loaves has a depiction of Jesus while the other ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. I imagine Jesus in a surgical mask, the straps tangled in the dark, spiral curls around ...

CHICAGO (RNS) — The first time the Rev. Lettie Moses Carr saw Jesus depicted as Black, she was in her 20s. It felt “weird,” Carr said. Until that moment, she’d always thought Jesus was white. At least ...

COMMENTARY: As proper icons elevate, perverse icons degrade — and horrific recent crimes have imprinted images that make present the reality of evil. But evil will not have the last word. A woman ...

From the Gospel according to John 19:19-20: Pilate also wrote a title and put it on the Cross; it read, "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews". Many of the Jews read this title, for the place where ...

A replaced version of “Mama,” by St. Louis artist Kelly Latimore, at Catholic University of America. Photo courtesy of CUA WASHINGTON (CNS) — The president of The Catholic University of America said ...

For modern skeptics, the sixth-century icon hanging in the Orthodox monastery in the shadow of Mount Sinai is simply a 33-by-18-inch board covered in beeswax and colored pigments. For believers, this ...

Founder of the Knights of Columbus Blessed Michael McGivney had a deep devotion to the Sacred Heart. Knights of Columbus process with the new Knights of Columbus Sacred Heart Pilgrim Icon during a ...