arts & culture Arts & CultureFeatureNewsVaticanWorld News Cancel Crusade: How gossip, scandal ruined a rare Renaissance treasure Carol GlatzFebruary 17, 20226 min read During a lecture Feb. 15 in Rome, Francesco Buranelli, president of the Commission for the Protection of Monuments of the Holy See and former director of the Vatican Museums, presented a picture of what can happen when fierce family rivalries, a Counter-Reformation “cancel culture” and 500 years of “fake news” find the perfect target in a problematic pope. Arts & CultureFeatureNewsObituariesWorld News Australian Mercy sister who got gold records for Our Father recording dies Catholic News ServiceFebruary 2, 20223 min read Mercy Sister Janet Mead, who earned gold records for her 1974 hit version of the Our Father, died Jan. 26 in her native Adelaide. She was 84 and had been battling cancer. Arts & CultureNewsWorld News Sculptor Edmonia Lewis shares message of human dignity through time Dennis SadowskiJanuary 28, 20226 min read Edmonia Lewis, the first African American and Native American sculptor to achieve international recognition through works that reflected her Catholic faith and the dignity of people, is being commemorated on a new postage stamp. Arts & CultureFeatureMovie & Television Reviews A look at the Top 10 best movies overall and best family films of 2021 John MulderigJanuary 21, 202212 min read Reviews of the Top 10 movies overall and seven of the best family films of 2021 as selected by the Media Review Office of Catholic News Service. Arts & CultureFeatureNewsWorld News Teen’s award-winning musical talents on display at monastery organ recital Julie AsherNovember 22, 20214 min read The sounds of a Bach fugue and several other musical works filled the sacred space of the church at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington’s Brookland neighborhood as Gabriel Galdo played the monastery’s Lively-Fulcher organ. #IamCatholicArts & CultureFeatureLocal NewsNewsRacial Justice From slave to portraiture artist George P. Matysek Jr.November 8, 20214 min read Johnson is an important figure in early federal and late colonial American portraiture art, Fulco said, whose story shows the increasing contributions of African Americans to American society in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. #IamCatholicArts & CultureFeatureLocal NewsNewsRacial Justice Beauty born of pain: Black Catholic artist sees art as means of healing George P. Matysek Jr.November 1, 20216 min read For Scott, art is a way to cope with the challenges of life. In his hands, the medium of clay becomes an instrument of healing. Arts & CultureFeatureNewsWorld News Identification of painting as 17th-century masterwork brings joy to parish Beth GriffinSeptember 21, 20215 min read A parish in a neighborhood that once had the highest concentration of COVID-19 cases in the country has found new joy in the discovery that a familiar painting over the transept doorway of its church is a 17th-century masterpiece. Arts & CultureFeatureNewsWorld News Architect turns 67,000 tiny LEGO pieces into Vatican City State replica Peter Finney Jr.September 16, 20215 min read Working quietly in his Chicago-area home during the lull of the pandemic in 2020, Buttliere cobbled together 67,000 tiny, plastic LEGO pieces to create an improbably realistic 3D replica of Vatican City State. Arts & CultureFeatureNewsSaintsWorld News British Museum exhibit on St. Thomas Becket gives sympathetic look at past Jonathan LuxmooreAugust 20, 20216 min read In a gallery of The British Museum, light plays on an array of medieval crosses, reliquaries and manuscripts, as an audiovisual display reenacts one of English history’s most notorious crimes. Previous 1 … 10 11 12 … 16 Next