Leo. J. O’Donovan, S.J., makes a virtual visit to the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Help us, God of mercy, to realize how much more threatening the pandemic is for a forcibly displaced person.

On April 25, the Met’s first virtual gala was held. It will be rebroadcast on June 12 and 13.

Come, Holy Spirit, to our suffering world, sick with a killing virus and everywhere threatened with silent death.

Richter, born in 1932 in Dresden, is arguably the most famous living artist.

Loving God, in the midst of our world’s—your world’s—coronavirus crisis, we beg to bring before you the brave women and men who are closest to the sick and suffering.

For now, the overall picture is dark, writes Leo O‘Donovan, S.J., of Jesuit Refugee Service USA, but we must still work for our brothers and sisters so that hope can endure and even blossom.

In the early 20th century, American artists were intoxicated by the way Mexican muralists transformed their people’s struggle for justice into narrative imagery.

More painful, though not treated in the exhibition, is the current situation of Sudan, which only became independent from British colonial rule in 1956.

Since 1990 a vibrant black parish has worshiped before the marvelous mural by Engelbert Mveng, S.J.