On the surface, Fra Filippo Lippi’s Madonna and Child with Two Angels appears to be another typical Renaissance painting of the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child.

The Wisconsin Dells Police Department reported on Friday that Francesco L. Di Filippo has not yet been found, eight days after the incident occurred. Last Friday, officials found and recovered the ...

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Wisconsin Dells police said the body found has been identified as 75-year-old Luis F. Di Filippo, of Chicago. Francesco L. Di Filippo, a 20-year-old Chicagoan, remains missing. Search crews said ...

The Frick Collection, on East Seventieth Street, is, by so many miles, the finest small city museum—less self-consciously eccentric than London’s Sir John Soane museum, broader in scope and ...

Credo quia absurdum: "I believe because it is absurd." This is the common paraphrase of an argument by Tertullian, an early church father. It has been repeated through the centuries in various ...

HIALEAH, Fla. (AP) — Twice a week, Luisa Arguello and her husband spend from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. praying in the perpetual adoration chapel at St. Benedict Catholic Church, tucked on a quiet palm-fringed ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple ...

The 7.5-carat diamond from Modi easily outstripped the next costliest gift — a brooch valued at $14,063 that Jill Biden received from the Ukrainian ambassador to the US — according to an annual ...

because you are most worthy of all our love. The fruit of silence is prayer. The fruit of prayer is faith. The fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace.