Leonardo da Vinci believed that man was a microcosm of the world, imbued with meaning.
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Did the Christ Child know his crucifixion was coming?
Leonardo da Vinci suggests that what did happen is what had to have happened.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
How Leonardo da Vinci painted us all into ‘The Last Supper’
We are all part faithful, part faithless.
Posted inArt, Arts & Culture
How art can deepen our experience of Lent and Holy Week
This Croatian artist Ivan Mestrovic taught me how art can be used for prayer.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
A Puritan visits Sagrada Família
Gaudí perfectly provokes us Puritans.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
The world needs the Black Madonna
Our Feb. 28th guest is Br. Mickey McGrath, an Oblate of St. Francis de Sales, an award-winning artist and author of 18 art and faith books. We discuss his recent article, We need images of the Black Madonna now more than ever. We also discuss these articles: Catholic colleges say peaceful gun control protests won’t […]
Posted inArts & Culture, News
Vatican, Versace and Vogue team up to show Catholic influences in fashion
Donatella Versace and Vogue’s Anna Wintour were in Rome today.
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No phantom threads in upcoming ‘Heavenly Bodies’ exhibit in New York
The sectarian will meet the secular in an unusual way with the May 10 debut of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibit “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Dispatches
Reaching the unchurched: Paulist Productions brings good news from Hollywood
“For the Paulists part of the mission is supposed to be reaching out to the unchurched.” The best ways to do that are constantly shifting. These contemporary leaders of Paulist Productions look on that fluid landscape with optimism.
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The art of Jesuit Rome comes to Connecticut
Bernini’s magnificent marble bust of St. Robert Bellarmine had made its way to Fairfield University.