Emmitsburg grotto awaits return of statue of Blessed Virgin Mary May 5, 2022By Gerry Jackson Catholic Review Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Colleges, Feature, Local News, News A 25-foot statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary is expected to be returned to its high perch at the National Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes overlooking the campus and surrounding countryside this summer.
Report: Kids’ time spent on screen soars during the pandemic April 27, 2022By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Commentary, Coronavirus, Feature, Guest Commentary Use of screen media per day is up 17 percent for teens (ages 13-18) and tweens (ages 8-12) from the start of the pandemic, according to Common Sense Media. And that doesn’t take into account time spent attending school virtually and doing homework.
Sulpician Father Peter Gray’s art deepens faith March 31, 2022By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, Local News, News For Father Gray, art is his full-time ministry. He spends hours a day working on a paint-splattered kitchen table to create sacred and secular art.
Youthful voices fill Baltimore Basilica with sacred song March 14, 2022By Todd Karpovich Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Baltimore Basilica, Feature, Local News, News The voices of young singers filled the chambers of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore with sacred songs.
Cancel Crusade: How gossip, scandal ruined a rare Renaissance treasure February 17, 2022By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, Vatican, World News During a lecture Feb. 15 in Rome, Francesco Buranelli, president of the Commission for the Protection of Monuments of the Holy See and former director of the Vatican Museums, presented a picture of what can happen when fierce family rivalries, a Counter-Reformation “cancel culture” and 500 years of “fake news” find the perfect target in a problematic pope.
Australian Mercy sister who got gold records for Our Father recording dies February 2, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, Obituaries, World News Mercy Sister Janet Mead, who earned gold records for her 1974 hit version of the Our Father, died Jan. 26 in her native Adelaide. She was 84 and had been battling cancer.
Sculptor Edmonia Lewis shares message of human dignity through time January 28, 2022By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News Edmonia Lewis, the first African American and Native American sculptor to achieve international recognition through works that reflected her Catholic faith and the dignity of people, is being commemorated on a new postage stamp.
A look at the Top 10 best movies overall and best family films of 2021 January 21, 2022By John Mulderig Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, Movie & Television Reviews Reviews of the Top 10 movies overall and seven of the best family films of 2021 as selected by the Media Review Office of Catholic News Service.
Teen’s award-winning musical talents on display at monastery organ recital November 22, 2021By Julie Asher Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News The sounds of a Bach fugue and several other musical works filled the sacred space of the church at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington’s Brookland neighborhood as Gabriel Galdo played the monastery’s Lively-Fulcher organ.
From slave to portraiture artist November 8, 2021By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Arts & Culture, Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice Johnson is an important figure in early federal and late colonial American portraiture art, Fulco said, whose story shows the increasing contributions of African Americans to American society in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Beauty born of pain: Black Catholic artist sees art as means of healing November 1, 2021By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Arts & Culture, Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice For Scott, art is a way to cope with the challenges of life. In his hands, the medium of clay becomes an instrument of healing.
Identification of painting as 17th-century masterwork brings joy to parish September 21, 2021By Beth Griffin Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News A parish in a neighborhood that once had the highest concentration of COVID-19 cases in the country has found new joy in the discovery that a familiar painting over the transept doorway of its church is a 17th-century masterpiece.
