Ratzinger Prize winner draws from late pope’s engagement with modernity November 26, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, Vatican, World News “We don’t have another theologian, it seems to me, that has been as engaged with modernity as Benedict,” said Cyril O’Regan, a co-winner of the 2024 Ratzinger Prize, often dubbed the “Nobel Prize of Theology.”
Indianapolis museum ‘deeply honored’ its ‘Madonna and Child’ painting chosen for Christmas stamp November 22, 2024By Sean Gallagher OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Christmas, Feature, News, World News This year, the USPS selected as the image for this stamp a painting that has been in the collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields in Indianapolis since 1938.
NCYC is part concert, liturgy, classroom, silly fun, but God is at center of it all November 21, 2024By Mike Cisneros OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News, Youth Ministry With the final blessing of the final Mass completed, thousands of young people took one last chance to rush the stage and rock out to a few songs to conclude the 2024 National Catholic Youth Conference in Long Beach.
Martin Scorsese’s new saints docuseries opens with Joan of Arc November 18, 2024By Katie Yoder OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Movie & Television Reviews, Saints Award-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese is debuting his latest work on Fox Nation: A new docudrama exploring the lives of the saints.
Notre Dame de Paris returns to her cathedral with thousands of Parisians walking her home November 16, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News Miraculously missed by burning beams falling from the roof on April 15, 2019, and waiting for five years to make it back to Notre Dame Cathedral, the 14th-century statue of the Virgin of Paris made it back home Nov. 15, accompanied by thousands of Parisians praying, singing and lighting candles as they walked their Virgin to Paris’ most iconic church, restored after the fire.
World needs artisans, small businesses to promote common good, pope says November 15, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, Vatican, World News Artisans, tradespersons and craftspersons make the world more beautiful and are collaborators in God’s creativity and desire for peace, Pope Francis said.
Our Lady’s statue will be the first one to return to her Notre Dame Cathedral November 14, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News In what is seen by the church of Paris as a triumphant return, the famous statue of the Virgin of the Pillar will be restored to her place in Notre Dame Cathedral Nov. 15.
Why Notre Dame Cathedral captures hearts and minds worldwide November 8, 2024By Maria Wiering Filed Under: Arts & Culture, World News PARIS (OSV News) — In a side chapel not far from the relics of Paris’ patroness St. Genevieve in the Church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, an easel holds a simple poster requesting prayers under the title “Notre Dame de Paris.” “Let us pray for the people of Paris,” it reads. “Let us pray for the Paris archbishop, […]
New students at Vatican’s school for artisans include an American November 1, 2024By Carol Glatz Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, Vatican, World News A unique school at the Vatican dedicated to encouraging young people to practice traditional crafts and skills that risk dying out has accepted a student from the United States to attend its specialized courses.
Albany Diocese hosts U.S. premiere of ‘Groomed,’ written and performed by abuse survivor October 31, 2024By William Schmitt OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Child & Youth Protection An award-winning, one-man play that made its U.S. public premiere in the Diocese of Albany was a breakthrough event, but not for reasons one might associate with a night at the theater.
Missouri bishop prohibits hymns with doctrinal errors or credibly accused composers October 30, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Child & Youth Protection, News, World News Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City, Mo., has issued a decree prohibiting certain hymns due to theological error or their composition by persons credibly accused of abuse.
France’s culture minister wants visitors’ fee for Notre Dame; church of Paris says no, invites all October 25, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News The countdown has begun for the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral throughout the weekend of Dec. 7-8. As the last pieces of scaffolding are being removed on the outside, Culture Minister Rachida Dati has proposed introducing an entrance fee to visit Notre Dame, which has caused a stir.
