As he approaches the icon in his Vancouver, British Columbia, studio, Andre Prevost places his hand on the unfinished work and prays. “You need to guide me on this. How do you want your icon to be ...
This summer, a Polish art critic and historian laid down a challenge to a group of contemporary icon painters from Ukraine and Poland: depict "God's justice." Katarzyna Jakubowska-Krawczyk, head of ...
Even in Catholic circles, icons suffer from insufficient understanding. These images are often regarded as a mere style of art from Eastern Orthodox churches. What they are, however, are glimpses into ...
This icon of the Annunciation on the doors to the sanctuary is one of four new icons at Holy Eucharist Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in New Westminster, British Columbia. The parish is working to ...
On an unseasonably warm autumn day in Columbus, Ohio, in 2016, Gracie Morbitzer recalls sifting through a box of free items at a cluttered yard sale. Beneath beat-up nail clippers and toilet paper ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... William Hart McNichols has often lived in two worlds — priest and artist, tender of flocks and solitary soul, openly gay man and defender of the Catholic ...
Juan Gonzáles practices the Afro-Cuban tradition of muerterismo, which inter-mingles Catholic and African iconography. In Gonzáles’ worldview Cuba’s patron saint, Our Lady of Charity, is linked to the ...
Pope Francis has made one groundbreaking move after another in his two-year papacy to retain and welcome more people into the Catholic Church. The announcements include the promise to remove the ...