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
“Beauty will save the world,” Dostoyevsky famously wrote in his novel, “The Idiot.” Certainly beauty is a subjective thing, and one can reasonably find it in the most highly decorated space as in the simplistic bareness, when it is true. And in
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Under Michelangelo’s frescoed ceiling in the Sistine Chapel, Pope Francis told more than 200 musicians, writers, poets and other artists to be like prophets, pursuing true beauty and using their art to shake up the societies where they
From Teresa Tomeo: I thought about and prayed for the many cynics and Catholic critics as I was glued to the news coverage of the devastating fire at the famous Notre Dame cathedral in Paris during Holy Week. As I listened and
Several years ago, when addressing the topic of culture and media influence on people of faith, Pope Benedict XVI gave us a great deal of food for thought: “Believers are conditioned by a culture of images that imposes contradictory models and impulses