Art, Food and the air of Rome. Curated by Lucy Gordon
An interview with Grzegorz Galazka, photographer and co-founder of the magazine By Anna Artymiak, Polish journalist living in Rome Polish photographer Grzegorz Galazka, who came from Poland to Italy almost 40 years ago. He crossed the Italian border for the first time on May 19, 1984 — the same day Robert Moynihan arrived in Rome [...]
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 Lucy Gordan Santa Maria dell’Anima (St. Mary of the Soul), located close to Piazza Navona. In contrast with the austerity of the church’s exterior, its interior is lavishly decorated with brightly colored frescoes, paintings, and sculptures, including Baldassare Peruzzi’s funerary monument for the gloomy Dutch Pope Adrian VI Many countries have national [...]
Clarifying the difference between an imposed "pop" music and a music truly "of the people" and their religious heritage By Maestro Aurelio Porfiri Rome, Basilica of Sant’Ignazio di Loyola in Campo Marzio. XI International Festival of Sacred Music and Art Romano Amerio’s book Iota Unum. A critical study of pre- and post- conciliar [...]
By Mother Martha All his life Joseph Ratzinger was devoted to his close-knit family, theology, music (especially Mozart, Bach, and Beethoven), cats, and food. His close attachment to food, especially sweets. was due to his mother, Maria Peintner. Born in Mülbach in Bavaria, though some sources say in the South Tyrol (today Italy), on January 8th, [...]
"I believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father. Light from Light, true God from true God, not made, one in being with the Father" By Robert Wiesner Arius sentenced by the Council of Nicea, icon from the monastery of Mégalo Metéoron, Greece Of all the [...]
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 [...]
