Family of Catholic Converts Produce Season Two of Hit Children’s Show, “The Wonderful World of Benjamin Cello” Wolaver Family Seeks to Evangelize Kids with New
OSV Institute for Catholic Innovation announces the next phase of the 2021 OSV Challenge, a multi-round entrepreneurial competition designed to incubate unique project ideas in
“Our human understanding, which shares in the light of the divine intellect, can understand what God tells us by means of His creation, though not
Late last year, I came across a particularly erudite comment on a friend’s Facebook post, detailing the evidence for ancient and medieval knowledge that the
By guest writer LeighAnna Schesser. Recently, a friend wrote to me saying, “I’m skimming Jesus of Nazareth and Pope Benedict XVI mentions all the mountains
Truth is recognized by the beauty in which it manifests itself. Singapore’s Cathedral of the Good Shepherd was recently renovated after suffering massive cracks from
He who has himself for a guide has a fool for a disciple. I had a lapsed Catholic friend who expressed skepticism about our devotion
A long time ago in my college dorm room, I was showing a friend the blog Creative Minority Report. It takes its name from Pope
As a child, one of my favorite things about Christmas was the Nativity scenes. From the teeny-tiny one on my family’s home altar to the
I jumped at the chance to review AT PLAY IN GOD’S CREATION: AN ILLUMINATING COLORING BOOK, because as the kid in all of us knows, nothing
I am not an avid fiction reader. If I’m lucky I make my way through one or two novels a year. More often than not
Last year, I wrote about how excited I was for the construction of our new parish church. Now, I am very happy that the construction
When I imagine liturgists, this is what comes to mind: Inculturation, the adaptation of liturgical texts, languages, rites, and, most especially, of music, to respect
Recently, I attended a talk about beauty. After asking his listeners about various things that they found beautiful (stars, music, the ocean), the speaker—a priest—presented
I became fascinated with old churches during my one-year stay in Europe. While I realize that Christ is no less present in a new church
It wasn’t until November 2012 that I visited my first art museum. Once before, as a college senior and tourist to Chicago, I attempted to
One Christmas Eve I had the flu. While my family went to Lessons and Carols, I wrote a poem about the pain Mary endured to
Last Thursday, March 26, 2015, the Vatican organized an exclusive tour of the Vatican museums for 150 homeless people in Rome. During the tour, the
Ever since childhood I was always taught to treat the Bible with a certain amount of respect. This included never setting it on the bare
Recently I had the great pleasure of meeting up with and interviewing an up-and-coming Catholic artist and good friend of mine, James Rosenbloom, to talk
Often times Catholics are called pagans and idol worshipers for depicting Christ, expressing Him in religious art, and expressing Him in statues. This is true
