Spoiler alert! We're discussing major details about the ending of “Mother Mary” (in theaters now). Stop reading if you haven't seen it yet and don't want to know. Nothing mends a friendship quite like ...

Queen Mary may be grieving the loss of her father, but she put on a brave face for her children, Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine, who were confirmed on Saturday. Stepping out at the Fredensborg ...

An influential order of nuns decided to complete its mission when the last sister dies. The only question left is how to finish well. By Kurt Streeter Visuals by Michelle V. Agins Kurt Streeter and ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1876, Peter Guthrie Tait set out to measure what he called the “beknottedness” of knots. The Scottish mathematician, whose research ...

A new book argues that the mother of Jesus was a powerhouse in her own right. Madonna and Child, c.1485 (oil on wood) by Giovanni Bellini, currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

The ailing pope was short of breath, sitting beneath a cherished painting of Mary, Untier of Knots, as he worked through a last-ditch plan to disentangle the finances of one of the world’s most opaque ...

Sister Mary Scullion has met with several popes, but Pope Francis stood out. "For Pope Francis' funeral, if there's any funeral I would want to be at, it's this one," Sister Mary said. Pope Francis, ...

In Evangelii Gaudium (‘Joy of the Gospel’), Pope Francis said: “I prefer a Church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a Church which is unhealthy ...

An ancient depiction of a naked woman hung on the wall of my father’s study. Skeletal, stupefied, and wildly bedheaded, she contemplated distances across time and space, as saints and mystics do. As ...

She was there when Jesus was crucified, yet no one knows much about her. That might be why scholars just can’t quit chasing down the truth about Mary Magdalene. The Penitent Magdalene by Guido Reni.

The appearance of the angel Gabriel to Mary proclaiming that she is to be the mother of Jesus is depicted in a stained-glass window at St. Therese of Lisieux Church in Montauk, N.Y. The solemnity of ...

Netflix's new original film based one of Christianity's most important stories premiered just in time for the holiday season, but some Catholics, Christians and historians are concerned about its ...