Excellence in women’s devotional art on display at Baltimore Museum of Art November 18, 2023By Nora Hamerman Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, Local News, News “The Education of the Virgin,” is now on view in the exhibit “Making Her Mark” at the Baltimore Museum of Art and is one of many works that are worth a visit to this grand show of what female artists achieved in the pre-modern era before 1800.
Seniors drawn to art by health benefits November 15, 2023By Gerry Jackson Catholic Review Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, Local News, News, Seniors Art classes can be an important part of seniors maintaining their cognitive ability as well as a terrific way of socializing.
Radio Interview: A conversation with a Black Catholic artist November 14, 2023By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview Wayman Scott IV, a parishioner of Church of the Nativity in Timonium, talks with George Matysek Jr. about his development as a Black Catholic artist.
Seven new books to help feed your mind and your faith November 11, 2023By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Books, News, World News In this year’s annual fall book review, we offer seven selections to support you in your faith journey:
Norway Catholics welcome Nobel Prize for writer-convert October 16, 2023By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News Church leaders in Norway have welcomed the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to Jon Fosse, a Catholic convert, predicting the honor could raise Catholicism’s profile in the traditionally Protestant country.
Reconstruction of Notre Dame is ‘sign of hope for everyone,’ cathedral rector says October 9, 2023By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News By the end of the year, Notre Dame Cathedral’s silhouette will be restored: Its entire 315-foot-high spire will once again crown the transept crossing, hidden beneath a 330-foot-high scaffolding.
Washington exhibit on Rome’s pilgrim churches showcases pilgrimage history October 7, 2023By Julie Asher OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Bible, Feature, News, World News A map from 1575 is part of a current exhibit at the Museum of the Bible in Washington and is among Jeff Kolha’s favorite prints on display in the exhibit “A Journey of Faith: The Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome” in the museum’s Vatican gallery.
‘Hard work’ of standup comedy a labor of love, faith for Jen Fulwiler October 3, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News The “hard work” of making others laugh is a labor of love and faith for standup comic Jen Fulwiler, a former atheist and Catholic convert delivering a “fresh take on modern life as a woman” to audiences throughout the nation with her 2023 “Maternal Instinct” comedy tour.
Catholic singer recalls how winning battle with shyness, relying on faith brought success October 1, 2023By Marietha Góngora V. OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News Guelmis Tavárez has a successful career in the Catholic music industry, but that success didn’t come without a fight against the extreme shyness he suffered from a young age and his reliance on his faith to evolve into the musical artist he is today.
Mount Calvary parishioners combines music, farming and family September 29, 2023By Kurt Jensen Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, Local News, News Erik Christensen, a parishioner of Mount Calvary Catholic Church in Baltimore, has extended his life into both music and what’s known as homestead farming. Hence the goats.
New artwork honors hero of Cumberland September 26, 2023By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, Local News, News, Saints, Western Vicariate It took Scott a full year to design and sculpt the nearly three-foot statue of Blessed Seelos, which was erected in March at the Shrine of Ss. Peter in Paul. Blessed Seelos walked the very grounds where his likeness now stands, when he served as pastor of Ss. Peter and Paul and prefect of students at a Redemptorist seminary in Cumberland from 1857 to 1862.
C.S. Lewis’ work continues to gain popularity 60 years after his death September 24, 2023By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Books, Feature, News, World News When Clive Staples Lewis bought The Kilns, a former brick factory, in 1930, he used its quiet remoteness to produce a stream of literary and spiritual masterpieces that are still quoted with reverence today.
