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Sculptor Edmonia Lewis shares message of human dignity through time
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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.
A look at the Top 10 best movies overall and best family films of 2021
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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.
Teen’s award-winning musical talents on display at monastery organ recital
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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.
From slave to portraiture artist
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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.
Beauty born of pain: Black Catholic artist sees art as means of healing
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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.
Identification of painting as 17th-century masterwork brings joy to parish
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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.
Architect turns 67,000 tiny LEGO pieces into Vatican City State replica
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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.
British Museum exhibit on St. Thomas Becket gives sympathetic look at past
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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.
Team crafts roof truss that could help guide rebuilding of Paris cathedral
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Team crafts roof truss that could help guide rebuilding of Paris cathedral

Patricia ZaporAugust 7, 20216 min read
The world watched in shock in April 2019 as flames devoured Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
Into the deep: Scuba-diving faithful honor Christ underwater
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Into the deep: Scuba-diving faithful honor Christ underwater

Carol GlatzJuly 30, 20214 min read
The statue, located offshore halfway between the small coastal villages of Camogli and Portofino, was the first known statue of Christ to be placed in the sea as a sign of his peace and protection for those who live, work or play by the water, to be a place of prayer and to commemorate those who have died there.
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