"Our job as Catholics is not to make the world look Catholic but to see the world as Catholics — with the universality that ...

The best sociopolitical art, like Pablo Picasso's "Guernica" and Jean Michel Basquiat's "Riding with Death," has always revealed the inner state of its creator. This dichotomy between the artist's ...

Professor Jem Sullivan discusses how beauty can save the world. Clockwise from left: Adoration culminates the second evening session of the National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis; the ‘Pietà’ ...

At a glance, this scene might look like a typical Catholic college campus. Students read Aquinas for multiple classes, pray the Rosary on the sidewalks, and have deep theological conversations daily.

In the March issue of America, Executive Editor Kerry Weber wrote of her appreciation for Catholic art often dismissed as mere kitsch. While some might look askance at the aesthetics of popular ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — More than 20 years ago, Steen Heidemann stumbled into Westminster Cathedral in London, where he was studying architecture, and witnessed his first Mass. Born to an atheist family ...

Students at Don Bosco Cristo Rey High School in Takoma Park, Md., in 2016. (OSV/CNS file, Jaclyn Lippelmann, Catholic Standard) The great educator and cultural historian Walter Ong, S.J., wrote an ...

Ann Patchett answers a question from the Wild Card deck and discusses how her feelings about God and her Catholic faith have changed over the years. Every week, a famous guest draws a card from our ...

Christian Art has announced the launch of the Faith Art Prize - a major international award celebrating contemporary art in ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In the late 1100s, an Irish priest and his assistant traveling south from Ulster stopped for the night. As they sat by their campfire, a wolf approached and spoke, telling the ...

A Catholic church in Eldoret, an epicenter of global long-distance running in the north Rift Valley region of Kenya, is in ...