Contrary to popular belief, the sacred Shroud of Turin was not used to cover Jesus’ post-crucifixion and was actually a recreation created by artists, per a study published in the journal Archaeometry ...

For almost 800 years, scholars and clerics have been locked in dispute over whether a piece of linen known as the Shroud of ...

Commentary: Images of white Jesus promote a false idol that leads us further and further away from the Gospel. We as a church, especially in the U.S., need to welcome the real Jesus into our minds ...

CHICAGO (RNS) — The first time the Rev. Lettie Moses Carr saw Jesus depicted as Black, she was in her 20s. It felt “weird,” Carr said. Until that moment, she’d always thought Jesus was ...

Over the centuries, many people have asked: “What did Jesus look like?” A new documentary attempts to answer this question. “The Face of Jesus” examines two acheiropoietic images of Christ ...

The Pew study, issued Aug. 5, showed that 69% of all self-identified Catholics said they believed the bread and wine used at Mass are not Jesus, but instead "symbols of the body and blood of Jesus ...

As a European Renaissance art historian, I study the evolving image of Jesus Christ from A.D. 1350 to 1600.