Florentine artist Michelangelo’s famed Pietà sculpture has for centuries drawn countless visitors, art lovers and Christian pilgrims to St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican City, where the monolith ...

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Just inside St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, to the right, is Michelangelo's arresting sculpture, the Pietà. Layers upon layers present themselves for pondering. The wonder, initially, is that a piece of ...

A small human chain formed outside St. Adalbert's Church in Pilsen Tuesday morning in a last, desperate attempted to stop the removal of La Pieta. It is a replica of Michelangelo's original ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Neighbors in Pilsen continue their fight to keep a beloved statue in place at a closed Catholic church. Activists have camped out at St. Adalbert Catholic Church for more than 40 days ...

The iconic sculpture’s journey from the Vatican to the 1964 World’s Fair in New York was a monumental feat of faith and logistics. The book cover of ‘Our Lady of the World’s Fair’ by Ruth D. Nelson, ...

Covered in a bright blue tarp and tied down with an orange harness, the La Pieta statue was moved out of the historic St. Adalbert Church in Pilsen Tuesday morning and heaved onto a flatbed truck as a ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Former parishioners gathered at the shuttered Saint Adalbert's Church in Pilsen Tuesday, where crews were working to remove a religious statue. Police were on hand to keep people away ...

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The Rooster. The Pietà. The Bees. They are heralds announcing warnings and at the same time offering hope in the midst of the Notre Dame Cathedral tragedy. What’s the Rooster that sat atop the soaring ...