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...
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...
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...
Church / Mary / Our Lady / Religious Art
by Admin · Published May 3, 2022 · Last modified May 2, 2022
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...
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...
Church / Church History / Nthabiseng Maphisa / Religious Art
by Nthabiseng Maphisa · Published March 28, 2022
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...
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...
Church / Priests / Religious Art / Simmermacher
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published February 16, 2022
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...
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...
Church / Parish Life / Religious Art
by CNS · Published September 22, 2021 · Last modified September 21, 2021
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...
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...
Books / Church / Priests / Religious Art
by Admin · Published January 23, 2021 · Last modified January 22, 2021
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...
Church / Religious Art / Vatican
by CNS · Published January 2, 2021 · Last modified December 29, 2020
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...
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