Tibetan art can be a challenge for non-initiates to decipher. But once you pierce its iconography, you find a moving testimony of faith lived against oppression.
Jacopo Tintoretto has been considered by many, including John Ruskin and Henry James, to be the greatest artist of the Italian Renaissance. His work astounds.
This Lent, the art of Lucio Fontana intensifies the insights of monastic spirituality. Even our worst crimes are pardoned by Christ’s extravagant mercy.
The history of the Children's Crusade deepens my understanding of the present: yes, the “little ones” suffer, but they retain a sense of dignity, even hope.
Readers celebrate the legacy of French Catholic thinker Paul Virilio, and question Cathleen Kaveny’s critique of using RICO the statute to prosecute the church
As Lent approaches, I’ve been in a state of spiritual anxiety over the inevitable renunciation that the season demands. God wants harmonious balance, not excess
An interview Fran Lebowitz, the writer, speaker, wit, and archetypal New York personality, on everything from the AIDS crisis to the heart of the Christian religion
A recent retrospective at the Whitney Museum centers on the activist legacy of New York City artist David Wojnarowicz, but also reveals his latent Catholicism
A new graphic novel portrays a world of military coups, propaganda, minority rights, Christian-Muslim tension, and reactionary sexual norms through a child’s gaze
This exquisite exhibition tells a multilayered story of the Catholic Church, the papacy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the Society of Jesus
