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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CHICAGO (CBS) --A beloved statue could soon be removed from a Pilsen church. Parishioners protested for months to prevent the removal of the replica of Michelangelo's La Pieta statue from St. Adalbert ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

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, ...

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