Art, Food and the air of Rome. Curated by Lucy Gordon
His outstretched finger points to something—Someone—other than himself By John Byron Kuhner St. John the Baptist Announces the Coming of Christ by Mattia Preti (c. 1665) I once had the misfortune of touring the Uffizi Galleries in Florence in the company of a renowned professor of art history. Art history professors are of course [...]
God's word will quench the thirst of your soul By Anthony Esolen Detail of the mosaic in the apse of St. John Lateran with the cross from which the baptismal water flows for all to drink Lately, I’ve been providing the notes for my new translation of Augustine’s Confessions (forthcoming from TAN Books), and [...]
By Matthew Trojacek “Dialogue and Reconciliation are Not Optional for Us”: An Interview With Ecumencial Patriarch Bartholomew The Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew, spiritual leader of an estimated 250 million Orthodox Christians worldwide Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I is the spiritual leader of an estimated 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide. He was chosen in 1991 to lead [...]
By Peter Anderson The Orthodox Church of Cyprus December 2021. Pope Francis kisses the cross of Chrysostomos II, the late Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Cyprus, who died of cancer on November 7, 2022, at the age of 81 The island of Cyprus, located in the Mediterranean Sea south of Turkey, has apostolic roots dating [...]
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, [...]
