The problem with trying to see the world is it only makes you hungrier. It is bigger, more interesting than you imagined. There is so much to see, so little time to see it.

(THE CONVERSATION) Pope Francis left a lasting legacy, not least his appreciation for art. In his 2025 biography, “Hope,” Francis spoke of his admiration for the Baroque painter Caravaggio. He ...

But it was also marked by Francis's affection for the arts. According to the New York Times, the late pope often discussed art, which, for him, was a “vital reality” that he placed in contrast ...

Vendors in Indonesia sold keychains and fans bearing his image. A message board to the late pope was covered in writings from ...

It’s me. I’m the pope guy.'” In 2013, Time Magazine asked the Wheaton-based artist to paint Pope Francis. The portrait would grace the cover of “The Person of the Year’ issue.

The year before he entered the seminary, the young man who would become Pope Francis went to see a movie. That film, Federico Fellini’s “La Strada” (1954), moved him deeply and became his ...

When Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at the age of 88, headlines understandably focused on his role as a global spiritual leader. As the proprietor in trust of the Vatican's library and art ...

In the same 2013 interview, Pope Francis named Federico Fellini’s 1954 Oscar-winning work La Strada, starring Giulietta Masina as fragile protagonist Gelsomina who is abused by brutish circus ...

“We do not gather and sorrow, we gather in Thanksgiving … We come as an Easter people to give praise, and thanks, to God for the servant Pope Francis,” said La Crosse Bishop Gerard Battersby.

Pope Francis' image seemed to be everywhere Friday as the world mourned his death in Rome at the age of 88. Artists created murals and graffiti memorializing him, including one in Buenos Aires ...

We are here to celebrate art and we are here to celebrate Francis Ford Coppola ... Josh Groban also performed “Brucia La Terra” from The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone.