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Arts & Culture

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.

Iconic Dorothy dress has been there ‘all along’ at Catholic University

July 9, 2021
By Carol Zimmermann
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News

It turns out there really is no place like home for a prized piece of movie memorabilia that came to The Catholic University of America’s drama department about 50 years ago.

Sponsor a gargoyle: New fundraiser launched for Notre Dame in Paris

April 15, 2021
By Deirdre C. Mays
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News

A novel fundraising approach to restore one of the most iconic monuments in the world, Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, enables donors to have a piece of history.

Graduate program aims to reverse decline seen in Catholic art, literature

April 6, 2021
By Mike Mastromatteo
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, World News

“Our aim is to serve and inspire the ongoing revival of Catholic letters in our time,” said co-founder James Matthew Wilson, outgoing professor of humanities at Villanova University near Philadelphia.

Beauty Resurrected: St. Leo the Great puts murals in new, improved light

April 1, 2021
By Matthew Liptak
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Arts & Culture, Feature, Local News, News, Urban Vicariate

St. Leo the Great in Little Italy is unsure when it will again be able to host one of its traditional street festivals. When it does, however, visitors will be able take in the majestic imagery of the “Glorification of the Canonization of St. Leo the Great” and adjacent murals that have been restored in its apse.

Artist calls painting portrait of pope ‘a spiritually rewarding experience’

March 25, 2021
By Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News

Perez got the commission, did some quick and intense research on the nonprofit and Pope Francis, brainstormed with McGrory, and came up with a concept meant to convey the pope’s loving concern for the poor throughout the world: He would paint the pope in the company of Jesus, St. Francis of Assisi and people of different ages and ethnic groups.

Lenten hymns and songs

February 12, 2021
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Arts & Culture, Lent, Local News, News

Looking for some good Lent hymns and songs to use for meditation and reflection? Here are some favorites.

Great Christmas carols you may not have heard

December 24, 2020
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Arts & Culture, Christmas, Commentary, Feature, The Narthex

George Matysek picks some of his favorite Christmas carols you may never have heard.

Away with the manger? Nativity scene at Vatican generates controversy

December 16, 2020
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Christmas, Feature, News, Video, World News

The human figures in the Nativity scene are made of rings of ceramic stacked on top of each other. They are cylindrical, not curvy like a natural human form. And the presence of an astronaut and a knight carries the whole thing to another level of untraditional.

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