Three words in a text message from a friend in London alerted Paul Gavrilyuk that Russia's invasion of Ukraine had begun. From his home in St. Paul, Minnesota, Gavrilyuk immediately called his brother ...

A charitable trust managing a hospital formerly run by nuns flagged the removal of all Catholic imagery in a series of internal emails more than a year ago. All the Catholic iconography, including ...

— An upcoming documentary aims to revise Catholic iconography for those who self-identify as LGBT and will depict Jesus Christ as “a member or ally of the LGBTQ+ community.” It includes appearances ...

OPULENT Catholic iconography and ritualistic op-shopping collide in Chantelle D’Arcy’s exhibition, Bathtub Madonna. Inspired by the artificial grottos sheltering statues of Mary which can be made from ...

Anna Schalk finds herself weeping each time she enters an Orthodox church and gazes at the flat, colorful icons of Jesus and the Virgin Mary. The impressionistic painter had long been drawn to ...

(RNS) — How ‘I Need God in Every Moment of My Life’ became a digital sanctuary for faith, irony and spiritual longing. (RNS) — A meme, as Kyle Hide explains it, is like a gene for culture. A concept ...

Down a Bethlehem alleyway, sunlight illuminates a golden icon of the Virgin Mary and Jesus, signalling the revival of an ancient art being practised in the workshop inside. Foreign students of the ...

For the latest on the best punditry, analysis, and news in the Catholic blogosphere click on the Pulpit. Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John ...

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