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Arts & Culture

Two popes who built St. Peter’s Basilica face each other fully restored

April 11, 2025
By Justin McLellan
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, Vatican, World News

Two popes who played instrumental roles in building the world’s largest church now gaze at one another with renewed clarity in the apse of St. Peter’s Basilica.

Art center continues to promote Rupnik art as alleged survivors hail mosaic coverages

April 8, 2025
By Junno Arocho Esteves
OSV News
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News

As dioceses and shrines are questioning how best to limit the use of artwork created by Slovenian Father Marko Rupnik, who is accused of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuse over three decades, the art center he founded continued to promote his latest mosaics at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Aparecida in Brazil.

Monk Manual collaboration with CFRs fosters sensitivity to God’s voice

April 5, 2025
By Maria Wiering
OSV News
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News

The journal, “Mysteries and Medicines,” was created in collaboration between the planning and journaling tool Monk Manual and the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, a religious order widely known by their Latin-based religious initials “CFR.” It shares its name with an album released in October by Brother Isaiah, a friar and popular Catholic musician.

A saint with a song: Blessed Carlo Acutis honored in ‘Corpus Christi’ single, video

April 5, 2025
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, Saints, World News

Blessed Carlo Acutis, the Italian teen set to be canonized April 27, has been hailed as a model for modern youth — and now, the soon-to-be-saint and his devotion to the Eucharist have been honored in a new single and video.

Fatima shrine will not remove Rupnik mosaic, but suspends promotional use, spokesperson says

April 3, 2025
By Junno Arocho Esteves
OSV News
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News

A representative of the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal said it is not considering the removal of artwork by Father Marko Rupnik days after the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France announced it would cover mosaics created by the disgraced priest.

Lourdes bishop covering Father Rupnik’s mosaics on sanctuary’s basilica doors

March 31, 2025
By Federica Tourn
OSV News
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News

Bishop Jean-Marc Micas of Tarbes and Lourdes has decided to cover mosaics by Father Marko Rupnik at the entrance of the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary, a move aimed at making the basilica more welcoming for all, particularly victims of abuse.

After Notre Dame, another iconic French church will get its spire back after 180 years

March 30, 2025
By Caroline de Sury
OSV News
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News

Following the restoration of Notre Dame in Paris, significant work began in March on the Cathedral Basilica of Saint-Denis basilica, located near Paris. This historic site, known as the necropolis of French kings, is undergoing a major reconstruction project.

St. Peter’s Basilica becomes a ‘fixable,’ explorable Minecraft world

March 21, 2025
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, Vatican, World News, Youth Ministry

Students around the world now have a chance to be an explorer-restorer of the 519-year-old basilica thanks to a new online educational opportunity created by Minecraft Education, Microsoft’s game-based learning platform, and with the help of St. Peter’s Basilica and Vatican City State.

Flannery O’Connor’s 100th birthday parties celebrate author’s quirks, talents — and love of birds

March 20, 2025
By Maria Wiering
OSV News
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Books, News, Uncategorized, World News

Long before Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor raised her famous peacocks as an adult in rural Georgia, she kept canaries and chickens at 207 E. Charlton St., her childhood home in Savannah.

Davidsonville parishioner’s art guided by the Holy Spirit

March 19, 2025
By Katie V. Jones
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, Local News, News

Shana McDonough never expected all the fuss over her sketches, which she did quickly with oil pastels and with little thought other than Googling each woman for basic research.

Vatican unveils ‘lost’ Renaissance painting of the deposition of Christ

March 18, 2025
By Justin McLellan
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, Vatican, World News

A painting of Christ being laid in the tomb, long hidden under layers of overpainting and forgotten by history, will once again be visible to the public in an upcoming exhibit at the Vatican.

Amsterdam unwraps papal ‘birthday gift’: St. Nicholas Basilica is named co-cathedral

March 16, 2025
By Anton de Wit
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News

The elevation Mass of St. Nicholas Basilica in Amsterdam to co-cathedral attracted a large crowd of attendees and dignitaries from home and abroad to the Dutch capital on March 8.

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