St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City is easily the most recognizable church in the world. Visitors to the basilica are often left staring up in awe, taking in the grandeur and beauty of the world’s ...

A new exhibition, “Transforming Matter: Incarnation, Sacraments, and Saints in Catholic Art and Devotion,” is on display at the Hope College Kruizenga Art Museum through Saturday, May 18. The public ...

A motion picture depictive of the life of the Blessed Virgin is now in preparation by The Catholic Art Association, which has been making Catholic pictures for seven years. Its purpose is “to ...

Faceless cloth Nativity figures on Brussels’ Grand Place have sparked international debate over Christian tradition versus ...

Kathleen Carr of the Chicago-based Catholic Art Institute details ‘the purpose of raising the mind and heart to God and expressing the mysteries of faith through the talents of artists, who are called ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — More than 20 years ago, Steen Heidemann stumbled into Westminster Cathedral in London, where he was studying architecture, and witnessed his first Mass. Born to an atheist family ...

One such work that expressed this idea is “A Thousand Knots” by Pamela Beverly Quigley. The sculpture employs wool and ...

In 1947 the Vatican spoke bluntly to modern artists presuming to handle medieval religious themes. In the encyclical Mediator Dei, Pope Pius XII warned that “he wanders from the right path … who ...

Brussels – Little brings more heavenly bliss to the faithful or otherworldly wonder to casual visitors than ethereal hymns cascading amid the columns of Catholic cathedrals. That is, unless the ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — But earlier this year, the head of the Vatican’s communications department created an uproar when he defended the continued use of images of Rupnik’s mosaics on the Vatican’s own news ...

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