Art, Food and the air of Rome. Curated by Lucy Gordon
By Robert Wiesner "I Believe in One God, the Father, the Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth, of All that Is Seen and Unseen..." Mosaic, detail from The Cycle of Creation, Monreale, New Cathedral of St. Mary, Italy There are a number of intellectual and philosophical proofs for the existence of God; all of [...]
By Mother Martha Every year Forbes Magazine and Bloomberg Billionaires Index publish lists of the 50 richest people in the world. This year Elon Musk was leading the lists with $195 billion, followed by the French chairman and CEO of luxury-items LVMH, Bernard Arnault, with $153.8 billion; Indian coal and transport tycoon Gautam Adani with $129 [...]
The Church Gives; Can the Church Take Away? By John Byron Kuhner Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston and other U.S. bishops concelebrate Mass in the crypt of St. Peter's Basilica on Nov. 7, 2019. The bishops were making their ad limina visits to the Vatican to report on the status of their dioceses to [...]
By Lucy Gordan Tempesta’s Capture of Jerusalem in “Painting with Stone/Landscape and Architecture” (photo credit: Galleria Borghese) May 6, 1527 was a tragic day in the history of Rome. Angry at not having been paid, some 34,000 mercenaries of Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, many of whom were German followers of Luther known [...]
Jesus heals on the Sabbath — shaking the foundations of earth and heaven By Anthony Esolen The Healing of the Paralytic by Tintoretto, Church of San Rocco, Venice The Jews persecuted Jesus, says John, after He healed the crippled man at the pool, because He had done so on the Sabbath (John 5:17). We [...]
A document on Church music not to be forgotten By Aurelio Porfiri The Concert of the Angels by Gaudenzio Ferrari, now in Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Milan, Italy. St. Pius X, Pope from 1903 to 1914. On November 22, 2023, a year from now, a document of enormous importance should be remembered, [...]
Medicine is losing its bearings. The Church's social teaching and the Hippocratic tradition can restore it By William G. White, M.D. Donors visiting a hospital in 1440 in Tuscany, Italy. The image is a part of a larger painting, La cura e il governo degli infermi, by Domenico di Bartolo, Santa Maria della Scala di [...]
More than a century ago, Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson foresaw the rise of secular humanism, the contraction of the Catholic Church, and the Coming of the Antichrist... By ITV Staff Editor’s Note: The passage below is from the novel Lord of the World, written by the English Catholic convert Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson (the son of [...]
By Dr. Alberto Ferreiro* Dominicans preaching the Gospel, detail from a mural by Diego Rivera in Mexico City, Mexico. Statue of Francisco de Vitoria at the Dominican San Esteban Monastery, named after St. Stephen the Martyr, in Salamanca, Spain I want to begin this essay on Francisco de Vitoria (1483-1546) on a [...]
"The law says, 'Hear, Israel'... It did not say, 'Speak'" By John Byron Kuhner Sts. Augustine and Ambrose, by Filippo Lippi, Albertina Academy of Fine Arts, Turin, Italy If you were to write an ethical guide for life, where would you start? What do you think would be the starting place for understanding how [...]
