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Arts & Culture

Aldean’s strange ‘small town’ sticks a finger into raw wounds

July 25, 2023
By Elizabeth Scalia
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Commentary

“Try that in a Small Town” boasts lyrics about Grandad’s shotgun, handed down and waiting in readiness in case any miscreants currently shoplifting, sucker-punching and otherwise diminishing our cities show up on his turf.

Medieval altar masterpiece of Kraków, Poland, receives European ‘Oscar of Culture’

July 13, 2023
By Paulina Guzik
OSV News
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News

The European Commission and Europa Nostra foundation has honored Poland’s medieval altarpiece for outstanding conservation. The Wit Stwosz (Veit Stoss) altar is widely regarded as a Gothic masterpiece.

Hit-making Christian musician now a Catholic priest

July 2, 2023
By Katie Yoder
OSV News
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News

For Father Crabtree, music drove him closer to Christ and, eventually, closer to the church.

New ‘Mary, Explained’ video series helps Catholics discover, embrace Jesus’ mother as the ‘model disciple’

May 30, 2023
By Kimberly Heatherington
OSV News
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News

“Mary, Explained”, a new, seven-part video series from the Diocese of Arlington, Va., tackles this catechetical gap, offering an engaging refresher course in who the Blessed Mother is, what the church teaches about her, and why all Catholics should be close to her.

Fifty years later, N.Y. priest still draws on Vietnam combat experience to minister to others

May 26, 2023
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News

Fifty years after the U.S. withdrew its troops from Vietnam, a New York priest says his combat experience there continues to shape his pastoral ministry.

Will AI serve or replace Hollywood’s human writers on strike for better wages?

May 17, 2023
By Kimberly Heatherington
OSV News
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News

Among the 11,500 members’ demands to the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, is that any forthcoming contract agreement should “regulate use of material produced using artificial intelligence or similar technologies.”

RADIO INTERVIEW: C.S. Lewis and the Chronicles of Narnia

May 15, 2023
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Books, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview

Joining Catholic Review Radio to talk about the significance of C.S. Lewis’ imaginative world and the spiritual benefit Lewis’ stories have on children and adults alike is Leonard DeLorenzo, editor of “Chronicles of Transformation: A Spiritual Journey with C.S. Lewis.”

‘Women’s Cry,’ a photo exhibit, opens in St. Peter’s Square

May 6, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

Nestled in the arms of Bernini’s colonnade around St. Peter’s Square, 26 photos of women and girls make up an art exhibit meant to open people’s eyes and hearts to the suffering and resilience of women.

Despite disability, young man directs film — in Lourdes, France

May 4, 2023
By Paulina Guzik
OSV News
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Movie & Television Reviews

The young Polish student directed a documentary on other disabled people traveling to Lourdes for an annual May pilgrimage with the Order of Malta.

RADIO INTERVIEW: Resurrecting spiritual classics

May 1, 2023
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Books, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview

The Catholic Review talks with Father Robert Nixon about how he goes about translating spiritual classics and we take a closer look at one of his recently completed translations, a book by Thomas A Kempis called “Meditations on Death: Preparing for Eternity.”

Over the pope’s shoulder: An ‘explosion’ of spirituality in bronze

April 30, 2023
By Justin McLellan
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

Through five pontificates, popes have instructed the faithful at their weekly general audiences, condemned war, called for peace and even celebrated birthdays in the Vatican audience hall under the gaze of a giant bronze sculpture of Jesus.

Vatican revives centuries’ old school for young artisans

April 24, 2023
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

The school offers three specialized programs: woodworking; masonry and decorative and ornamental plastering; and stonework and carving.

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