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Water has damaged the 18th-century frescos, but visitors to the cloister of the Cathedral of Saint Mary of Toledo in Spain can still discern a haloed boy nailed to a [...]

Following news of the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been scary in a personal way for Rabbi Menachem Shemtov and his wife, Racheli. Racheli grew up in Kyiv, where her [...]

Editor's note: In this issue we publish a series of three essays by Jewish writers reflecting on their experiences with the Catholic community. For more detail, see Page 2.The compassion [...]

NEW YORK * Over coffee at Rex, the hip, Upper West Side shop that Fordham University students haunt, Kyle Pritz, 28, pauses to hold his glasses up sideways. It looks [...]

CHICAGO and WASHINGTON * In the late 1920s, when Chicago artist Ivan Albright sat to paint a full-length portrait of Peter Haberlin, a Franciscan monk at Mission San Luis Rey [...]

WASHINGTON * A 1937 report summarizing that year's meeting of a department of the National Catholic Educational Association sits on Michael James' desk at Boston College, where he directs the [...]

Three years ago, senior staff at College of St. Mary, a Catholic women's school in Omaha, Neb., held a brainstorming session, in which they wondered how Catherine McAuley, who founded [...]

BALTIMORE * Reports in the Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Magazine, CBS and Catholic News Service parrot The Walters Art Museum's claim that its early 13th century missal is the famous liturgical [...]

Pedestrians who encounter Rabbi Levi Greenberg, of El Paso, Texas, know that the Chabad rabbi, who wears a black hat and a long beard, is a Hasidic Jew. Sometimes they [...]

When Ben Stork applies for full-time teaching jobs, the adjunct film studies professor knows his resume lands in voluminous piles. 'When I'm granted a rejection letter, it almost always comes [...]

SALT LAKE CITY * Juxtaposing and throwing multiple images into conversation may occur casually in photo albums or algorithmically on social media. But the diptych or pendant format, wherein comparison [...]

As they jostled to control lucrative and important Middle Eastern spice trade routes between 100 B.C. and A.D. 250, the Roman and Parthian (ancient Iranian) empires have earned Scylla- and-Charybdis-like [...]

In a process called tabula rasa, or 'clean slate,' Spanish Catholic priests, fueled by missionary zeal, arrived in Mexico and dismantled pre-Columbian (before Christopher Columbus) temples and broke, burned and [...]

I still remember standing in front of Michael Tracy's enormous triptych on a February 2015 visit to St. Louis University's Museum of Contemporary Religious Art. From a distance, the powerful [...]

It's a tale of two stones. One, now lost, was embedded in Goliath's head, sculpted around 1465 by Florentine artist Andrea del Verrocchio (circa 1435-88). The life-sized bronze 'David with [...]

When Alan Brill and Seton Hall University colleagues met to rewrite the New Jersey-based Roman Catholic school's mission statement, the group needed a quote to include in one of the [...]

When they imagine the Ten Commandments in their mind's eye, most are likely to see a petrified take on the McDonald's logo. This has a lot to do with references [...]

The Italian artist born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni in 1475 rarely appears to have been of his own time. At 20 or 21, Michelangelo passed off a sleeping cupid [...]

BRUNSWICK, MAINE * Visual clues and ominous signposts are easily overlooked in 17th-century Dutch vanitas paintings, which feature massive, palatable displays. Every detail of the lavish food arrangements is delineated [...]

THE HAGUE, LEIDEN AND AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS * Piet Mondrian's signature later style--red, blue and yellow rectangles embedded within a black grid--surfaces everywhere. It adorns the Partridge Family bus, it [...]

TOLEDO, SPAIN * 'Alas the synagogues, fallen to ruins, where kites and vultures have nested; for the children of Israel have departed,' wrote Ya'aqob Albeneh in a 1391 poem. He [...]

SEVILLE, SPAIN --s Visitors to Santa Maria de la Sede, Seville's cathedral and the world's third largest church, need to peer over the baptismal font from behind a stanchion to [...]

This article discusses the life and work of Jozef Israëls, a 19th-century Dutch painter known as the "Jewish Rembrandt." Despite his Orthodox Jewish upbringing, Israëls did not focus on Jewish subjects until later in his career. His paintings often depicted everyday life and Jewish themes, such as a Jewish wedding and a Jewish scholar studying. Israëls was also associated with the Hague School, a group of artists who focused on everyday people and landscapes. The article explores the question of whether Israëls' Jewish identity influenced his artistic style and subject matter. [Extracted from the article]

The bearded and robed reclining figure of St. Peter Nolasco cannot be sleeping soundly or dreaming sweetly. A tree has sprouted from his left side, and no fewer than 36 [...]

'Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses,' Golda Meir, Israel's prime minister from 1969 to 1974, famously complained. 'He took us 40 years through the desert [...]