Ten Commandments tablet, attributed to ancient Samaritans, goes up for auction December 17, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News An inscribed tablet of the Ten Commandments — claimed to be the world’s oldest known extant example — will go on auction Dec. 18 with expectations of garnering as much as $2 million.
Vatican chooses prisons as starting point for Jubilee art projects December 17, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, an award-winning poet, believes art can heal people, including prisoners, and can help them find the right path forward.
Jesus’ crown of thorns returns to Notre Dame Cathedral December 16, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News Firefighters and police officers formed a human chain to rescue the crown of thorns from the inferno at Notre Dame on April 15, 2019. On Dec. 13, 2024, this holiest relic of Paris’ cathedral was returned to its proper home on the Île de la Cité.
With inaugural Mass, Notre Dame reveals ‘the Lord does not abandon his own’ December 8, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News Chilling rain and the “City of Lights” completely locked down due to high profile guests did not stop the crowds from arriving as close to Notre Dame Cathedral as possible for its inaugural Mass celebrated Dec. 8.
‘Long live Notre Dame de Paris!’ Jubilation as iconic Catholic cathedral reopens December 7, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News The solemn reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral put Paris in the center of the Catholic world on the evening of Dec. 7 as the archbishop of France’s capital struck the magnificent door with his pastoral staff, marking the moment of the iconic Catholic church’s rebirth.
Reopening of Notre Dame is victory day for firefighters who saved it from the inferno December 5, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News As the whole world awaits the reopening of Notre Dame, for those present inside the cathedral for the “grand réouverture,” it will be even more of a special moment.
Hopkins medical sculptor transforms lives, restores hope with facial prostheses December 5, 2024By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, Health Care, Local News, News He’s worked with patients whose ears were bitten off in dog attacks. He’s seen people whose eyes or ears were lost in accidents or whose flesh was ravaged by aggressive cancers. And he’s helped others born without body parts or who suffered unimaginable gunshot wounds.
Handmade gifts make Christmas presents more meaningful December 5, 2024By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Christmas, Feature, Local News, News Christmas gifts made by hand offer many benefits, artists and crafters say, no matter if they are baked, painted, sewed or melted. They are one-of-a-kind and mean a lot to both the givers and the receivers.
Trump to attend Notre Dame Cathedral’s reopening ceremonies December 4, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News President-elect Donald Trump will attend the upcoming reopening ceremony for Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, he said Dec. 2. The trip will mark his first foreign trip since his election to a second term.
Ukrainian art therapist helps people traumatized by the war that took her son December 4, 2024By Maryann Gogniat Eidemiller OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, War in Ukraine, World News Artist and psychologist Tetiana Myalkovska of Ukraine used her art therapy techniques to work with children who have special needs and with her country’s traumatized soldiers returning from the conflict when Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014.
U.S. basilicas, churches to ring bells at the moment Notre Dame Cathedral reopens December 3, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News As Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris officially reopens Dec. 7-8, bells will ring in churches an ocean away in the United States to celebrate the historic moment.
Notre Dame shines bright as French president visits days before the ‘grande réouverture’ December 2, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News The world was left stunned when the first images of the rebuilt Notre Dame were published and spread with viral speed as President Emmanuel Macron walked through the bright, unrecognizably beautiful Parisian cathedral on Nov. 29, a week ahead of the Dec. 7-8 official reopening.
