It’s the year of the Paris Olympics. Here are the Catholic must-sees in the French capital May 1, 2024By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, Olympics, Sports, World News More than 15 million visitors are expected to descend upon the city of Paris this summer for the 2024 Olympics. The French capital will serve as the stage for over 300 events in 32 sports — including, for the first time, breakdancing — to test participants’ adherence to the time-honored Olympic creed: “The important thing in life is not the triumph, but the fight; the essential thing is not to have won, but to have fought well.”
‘Tortured Poet’ Taylor Swift offers troubled tales of our time May 1, 2024By Lauretta Brown OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News Taylor Swift grapples with the weight of her words in her latest offering “The Tortured Poets Department,” a 31-track double album that explores heartbreak, fame and longing.
Alleged victims of Father Marko Rupnik: His art cannot be separated from abuse claims April 30, 2024By Federica Tourn OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News For the rector of the world’s second largest church after St. Peter’s Basilica, the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Aparecida in Brazil, May 11 will be a day of celebrating the inauguration of the southern facade’s mosaics, all created by Father Marko Rupik.
Pope praises artists, encourages prisoners to never lose hope April 29, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Some 80 female detainees, prison staff and volunteers applauded and smiled when Pope Francis told them he wanted to meet them first on his one-day visit to Venice April 28 to tell them, “You have a special place in my heart.”
Sister best known for ministry to migrant shares her artwork that tells their stories April 27, 2024By Simone Orendain OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News A religious sister best known for helping more than 100,000 migrants and asylum-seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border in southern Texas was in Chicago April 15 to share her artwork nationally for the first time and reiterate a message of love.
Paris archbishop moved by the joy of workers, artisans involved in cathedral restoration April 19, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News Archbishop Laurent Ulrich found himself taking over the Archdioceses of Paris in the spotlight — three years after the Notre Dame fire, as the world watched the cathedral being rebuilt, and waiting for the work to be completed.
Notre Dame’s reopening is ‘occasion of spiritual awakening for France,’ cathedral’s rector says April 15, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News With the scaffolding removed from the newly installed spire of Notre Dame Cathedral and reconstruction work going full speed inside France’s most iconic church, the home of precious relics and a tourist site visited by millions of people yearly will be ready to reopen Dec. 8.
Radio Interview: Catholic musician Matt Maher hopes Eucharist can bring people together April 15, 2024By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Eucharist, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview For Catholic singer-songwriter Matt Maher, the 17th chapter of John’s Gospel, in which the Lord prays that all will be one, has fueled his 20 years of itinerant ministry and traveling.
‘It will be breathtaking,’ Notre Dame’s chief architect says; iconic cathedral reopens Dec. 8 April 14, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News Since the rebuilding work began, all those involved on site have testified to the exceptional quality of the skills and spirit of Notre Dame’s craftsmen.
‘This is my body’: The Last Supper in art April 10, 2024By Corine Erlandson OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Commentary, Eucharist Great artists have used color and shape, shadow and light, to present their own interpretation of that fateful meal. They have frozen the scene in a single image, filled with nuance and symbolism.
Artist Daniel Mitsui: A portfolio that balances tradition with innovation April 8, 2024By Simcha Fisher OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News Daniel Mitsui, 41, has spent decades doing the work of carefully sorting, modifying and balancing tradition with innovation — or, more precisely, “combinations of influences, rather than wholly new ideas,” he said.
In praise of singing March 7, 2024By Laura Kelly Fanucci other Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Commentary It’s a foretaste of heaven to look around Mass and witness the full participation of the people of God.
