In Caravaggio’s painting “The Death of the Virgin,” the model for Mary was either a drowned prostitute plucked from the Tiber River or a harlot with whom the painter was in love. Or so the legend goes ...

Vandals have beheaded a controversial sculpture featuring the Virgin Mary giving birth to Jesus that had been exhibited in the cathedral in the Austrian city of Linz. VATICAN CITY (AP) — Vandals have ...

This account of a sisterly contretemps between Martha and Mary has been read differently at different times. It has been understood, for instance, as marking the superiority of the contemplative life, ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Vandals have beheaded a sculpture featuring the Virgin Mary giving birth to Jesus that had been exhibited in the cathedral in the Austrian city of Linz and drawn criticism from ...