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Arts & Culture

Cancel Crusade: How gossip, scandal ruined a rare Renaissance treasure

February 17, 2022
By 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, 2022
By 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, 2022
By 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, 2022
By 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, 2021
By 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, 2021
By 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, 2021
By 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, 2021
By 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.

Architect turns 67,000 tiny LEGO pieces into Vatican City State replica

September 16, 2021
By Peter Finney Jr.
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News

Working quietly in his Chicago-area home during the lull of the pandemic in 2020, Buttliere cobbled together 67,000 tiny, plastic LEGO pieces to create an improbably realistic 3D replica of Vatican City State.

British Museum exhibit on St. Thomas Becket gives sympathetic look at past

August 20, 2021
By Jonathan Luxmoore
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, Saints, World News

In a gallery of The British Museum, light plays on an array of medieval crosses, reliquaries and manuscripts, as an audiovisual display reenacts one of English history’s most notorious crimes.

Team crafts roof truss that could help guide rebuilding of Paris cathedral

August 7, 2021
By Patricia Zapor
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News

The world watched in shock in April 2019 as flames devoured Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

Into the deep: Scuba-diving faithful honor Christ underwater

July 30, 2021
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

The statue, located offshore halfway between the small coastal villages of Camogli and Portofino, was the first known statue of Christ to be placed in the sea as a sign of his peace and protection for those who live, work or play by the water, to be a place of prayer and to commemorate those who have died there.

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