MANILA -- On Dec. 18, Filipina migrant worker Mary Jane Veloso will mark a year inside a Philippine jail after spending 14 years on death row in Indonesia for drug smuggling. Last year, Manila and ...

Jane Krakowski will star as Mary Todd Lincoln through January 4, 2026. Jinkx Monsoon returns to star as Mary Todd Lincoln from January 8 through February 1, 2026. John Cameron Mitchell will star as ...

She was there when Jesus was crucified, yet no one knows much about her. That might be why scholars just can’t quit chasing down the truth about Mary Magdalene. The Penitent Magdalene by Guido Reni.

A new book argues that the mother of Jesus was a powerhouse in her own right. Madonna and Child, c.1485 (oil on wood) by Giovanni Bellini, currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

“Window seat with garden view / A perfect nook to read a book / I’m lost in my Jane Austen…” sings Kristin Chenoweth in “The Girl in 14G” — what could be more ideal? Well, perhaps showing off your ...

For decades, people have paused outside of No. 8 College Street next to the campus of Winchester College in England. The only detail of the painted brick building’s façade that gives away its ...

In her six completed novels, Jane Austen excelled at love stories: Elinor and Edward, Lizzie and Darcy, Fanny and Edmund, Emma and Knightley, Anne and Wentworth, heck even Catherine and Tilney. As her ...

Why do the works of Jane Austen still hold so much appeal 250 years after her birth? We ask members of the Jane Austen Society of North America as well as writers Sandra Cisneros and Brandon Taylor.

Mary, under her title of the Immaculate Conception, has been patroness of the United States since the mid-19th century. But her protection of the nation dates back to its earliest history. One of the ...