In the Like a Prayer video, Madonna wore a black lacy slip dress and a cross necklace, symbolizing sin and redemption in a controversial, boundary-pushing visual narrative. What Song did Madonna ...

Thirty-six years ago today, Madonna started a three-week run at the top of the Hot 100 amid a firestorm of controversy.

Recent protests on racial justice have also questioned the portrayal of Jesus as a white man. An art historian explains how this image appeared and came to be marketed worldwide.

As a European Renaissance art historian, I study the evolving image of Jesus ... like his portraits of regular people, with the subject positioned between a fictive parapet and a plain black ...

The first photo shared on her Instagram story featured Madonna, 66, snuggled next to the head of the Catholic Church in a black ... video for “Like a Prayer” which sexualized Jesus and ...

FILE - Pope Francis attends a prayer for peace at ... a Byzantine-style painting of the Madonna draped in a blue robe, holding the infant Jesus who in turn is holding a jeweled golden book.