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With fingers raised in blessing and left palm resting upon an orb, this image of Christ Pantocrator is made of feathers and gold. It was created by indigenous craftsmen in central Mexico, working ...

Christ’s face emerges from a shimmering gold background, his brow slightly furrowed, lips pressed in a quiet, knowing tension, one hand raised in blessing while the other clutches a bejeweled gospel ...

Vatican City (Fides Service) – As usual on Sunday 23 November Pope John Paul II came to his study window to pray the midday Angelus with people gathered in St Peter’s Square, who were several thousand ...

The oldest known icon of Christ Pantocrator, encaustic on panel, Saint Catherine's Monastery. (Wikimedia Commons) In 1988, my first year as a Jesuit novice in Boston, I spied a slim paperback book on ...