Artist Eileen Cunis has designed and created a processional banner of Mary Mother of the Eucharist that recently was accepted for the National Eucharistic Revival Art Exhibit, and will travel from Connecticut to Indiana. As delighted as Cunis is to have her
Museums around the world feature art depicting the Annunciation, which Catholics celebrate on April 8 this year. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) in New York City is one of them. “I think a very large part of it has to
Sacred artist Daniel Mitsui’s work is distinctly medieval but brings in elements of Persian, Celtic and Japanese art. “I think of it as a living style, rather than a historical one,” he told writer Simcha Fisher. Being fascinated with sacred art, Mitsui
While church groups in different nations have been discussing what to do with Father Marko Rupnik's works after sex abuse allegations against him came to light, Brazil's Sanctuary of Our Lady of Aparecida, the major Catholic shrine in the South American country,
As evidence mounts of sexual crimes by Slovene-born Father Marko Rupnik, church communities are resisting calls for his expensive sacral artworks to be removed from public display.
"Father Rupnik's case is still ongoing -- we must await a formal ruling by the Holy
Simcha Fisher interviews sacred artist Mattie Karr who uses her art to evangelize, and encourage others to slow down and gaze on the beauty that draws them to God. Karr paints and draws sacred and liturgical art and also does commissions with
On Oct. 30, three days after Pope Francis lifted the statute of limitations and opened the path for a church trial and possible removal from the priesthood for former Jesuit and mosaic artist Father Marko Rupnik, a woman previously known as Anna
Simcha Fisher writes about Catholic painter and illustrator Jaclyn Warren. The artist and co-founder of the St. Louis IX Art Society is on a mission “to cultivate the sacred arts and promote a culture of Catholic beauty in South Louisiana.” A wife
By supporting the preservation, restoration and exhibition of art, especially religious art, the Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums share beauty that can touch all people and build bridges between them, Pope Francis said.
Symbols matter, as plenty of good Catholic friends have patiently argued that fact with Father Patrick Briscoe, he writes: “How can his artwork be seen as anything other than symbolic of the rot and moral decay that has poisoned the Church these