Spiritfest 2022- A Revitalised Return
By Amy-Grace Bessick – After two years, Spiritfest has returned alongside the National Arts Festival in Makhanda/Grahamstown that kicked off on June 23 and is running till July...
Category: Religious Art
Marian Chalk Artist Uses Unique Canvas
By Joanne Fox – Maria Loh is an artist whose sacred work is transitory, totally dependent on the elements. Yet, she made her religious mark on a...
The Two Faces of the Madonna
The French painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau created several artworks of the Blessed Virgin Mary with her Son. Two stand out for the stark contrast they provide: The serene...
Sulpician Father Peter Gray: Art Deepens Faith
By George P. Matysek Jr. – Carefully unrolling an enormous canvas on the living room floor of his Reisterstown, Maryland home in early March, Sulpician Father Peter...
We Need Beauty: Ancient and New
Often I have been moved, and at times also puzzled, by these 1700-year-old words of St Augustine: “Late have I loved you, beauty ever ancient yet ever...
Cancel Crusade: How Gossip Ruined a Rare Renaissance Treasure
By Carol Glatz – Pope Francis often warns about the dangers of gossip, likening tattlers to terrorists who “drop a bomb with their tongue” and “destroy the...
Deaf-blind Fr Cyril Axelrod launches new book
The last thing Fr Cyril Axelrod saw before he finally went blind was the light of a candle which he had lit. The light faded as his...
Spotlight on Black Saints
For a Caribbean artist, black saints don’t receive much attention — and he hopes his project will change that, as he told Günther Simmermacher Saints are our...
Identification of painting as 17th-century masterwork brings joy to parish
By Beth Griffin – A parish in a neighbourhood that once had the highest concentration of Covid-19 cases in the country has found new joy in the...
Catholic sculptor hopes to inspire with his liturgical art
By Zoey Maraist – When he was 7 years old, Dony Mac Manus’ mother gave him a bag of clay for his birthday. The boy wasn’t thrilled...
Light in Silent Darkness: Paintings by Deafblind Rabbi-Priest
A book of paintings by a South African priest who is deaf and blind has been published, marking the 50th anniversary of his ordination. Redemptorist Father Cyril...
Come to the water: Mosaicists bring renewal to Rome’s first Baptistery
By Carol Glatz – Even though the baptisms the pope celebrates most years in the Sistine Chapel are better known, the most important place to be baptised in...
