Florentine artist Michelangelo’s famed Pietà sculpture has for centuries drawn countless visitors, art lovers and Christian pilgrims to St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican City, where the monolith ...

Black Catholic artist Wayman Scott with his sculpture the Baltimore Pietà (Provided by Wayman Scott) Editor’s note: On Jan. 14, Black Catholic artist Wayman Scott unveiled a sculpture nearly three ...

Just inside St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, to the right, is Michelangelo's arresting sculpture, the Pietà. Layers upon layers present themselves for pondering. The wonder, initially, is that a piece of ...

A small human chain formed outside St. Adalbert's Church in Pilsen Tuesday morning in a last, desperate attempted to stop the removal of La Pieta. It is a replica of Michelangelo's original ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Neighbors in Pilsen continue their fight to keep a beloved statue in place at a closed Catholic church. Activists have camped out at St. Adalbert Catholic Church for more than 40 days ...

(RNS) — A spokesperson confirmed the painting, which uses an artistic style known as a Pietà to depict a Black Virgin Mary cradling Jesus’ body after his Crucifixion, was stolen on Sunday. WASHINGTON ...

Covered in a bright blue tarp and tied down with an orange harness, the La Pieta statue was moved out of the historic St. Adalbert Church in Pilsen Tuesday morning and heaved onto a flatbed truck as a ...

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“Many see the male figure as George Floyd,” Garvey said in the email, “but our Law School has always seen the figure as Jesus.” A Pieta painting, "Mama," by artist Kelly Latimore, has been displayed ...