One of Smith's favorite photos is of the late, legendary George Carlin — the famously profane and religion-mocking standup played a Catholic cardinal — alongside the film’s life-sized, masses-friendly ...

But apparently, there is still at least one topic that elected officials aren’t allowed to glibly dismiss without facing ...

Christ’s crucifixion is one story that has fascinated many artists and writers throughout history. Countless paintings depict the scene. Some traditional church buildings place sculptures of ...

To the shock the art history community, that’s what exactly happened in 2019. One of Cimabue’s 700-year-old gold-ground panels was found hanging over a hotpot in an elderly French women’s ...

An earlier work than the “Mocking of Christ”, the restored “Maestà” shows how Cimabue had already opened the way for naturalism in Western painting, breaking with the conventions of ...

To portray The Mocking of Christ, he painted a regal, blindfolded Christ figure crowned with thorns; the throng of jeering soldiery appear only as a group of disembodied hands and a loutish head ...

ROSARY & ART: In suffering for our sins, Jesus is teaching us, ... One persists in the hatred and sins that marked his life, joining in the mocking of Christ. He is not a man of hope.