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Arts & CultureShort Take
Greg Erlandson - Catholic News Service
Father Marko Rupnik is a remarkably gifted artist. He also stands accused of horrific spiritual, psychological or sexual abuse. What should we do with his many works?
Martin Scorsese gives Pope Francis a copy of the “Our Father: written in Osage, from Scorsese’s new movie “Killers of the Flower Moon.” (Photo courtesy of Michael Murphy)
Arts & CultureIdeas
Michael P. Murphy
What happens when 70 artists and writers come together to discuss the Catholic imagination?
colorful icons of a hummingbird, monarch butteryfly and bee
FaithFaith in Focus
Jim McDermott
Artist Angela Manno creates Byzantine Russian-style icons of threatened and endangered plant and animal species. And they are really extraordinary.
a sculpture with a lot of people, immigrants and people of color, with scared or hopeful faces; an angel's wings peak up in the midst of them
FaithArt
Christopher Parker
Catholic sculptor Timothy Schmalz has designed the most recent sculpture in the Vatican—the first there since the 1600s—and his many other works similarly show marginalized peoples in the church.
Arts & CultureBooks
Robert E. Hosmer Jr.
With 'Botticelli’s Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance,' Joseph Luzzi has written a fascinating narrative that tells the story of the drawings and seeks to revise our understanding of the phenomenon traditionally known as the Renaissance.
Catherine Clinch plays Cáit in the Irish language film <em>“An Cailín ”</em> (”The Quiet Girl”).
Arts & CultureDispatches
Kevin Hargaden
Film-making in Ireland has been in the shadow of other cultural successes in literature and music. That may all be about to change. At this year’s Academy Awards, there are three movies with strong Irish connections up for Oscar consideration.