At St. John’s in Collegeville, starting June 2020.
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Category: Art and Architecture
Canada set to lose 9,000 church buildings.
National Trust for Canada has recently released a report projecting that out of some 27,600 current church buildings a full 1/3 will be closed or
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John Cook, rest in peace
The Yale Institute of Sacred Music has announced the death of John Cook (1933-2019), former director of the institute and emeritus professor at the Yale
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The Beauty of Modernist Church Buildings
The photographs of Thibaud Poirier reveal the beauty of modern churches.
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Notre-Dame 2.0
The pertinent question for church heritage is communio, not modification.
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Construction of Cathedrals Brought Progress – Not an Extended Middle Ages!
Our enlightened era spends its money on the military, automobiles, and propaganda celebrations.
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Another Rembrandt: Thoughts on the Prodigal Son
The Prodigal Son is the centerpiece of the last three Sundays of Lent in Year C. Why?
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An Altar by any Other Name
Multivalent liturgy requires multivalent art and architecture.
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Something Old, Something New: The Use of Sarum
What can a late medieval inculturation of the Roman Rite offer us today? Plenty! The Sarum Use is a rich collection of music and ritual that particularly reminds us of the importance of moving – processions and stations marking our journey as a pilgrim church into the heart of God.
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Feast of the Presentation: Anna’s Eloquence
…while Anna remains wordless in the Gospel according to Luke, in Christian visual art, she actually begins to speak, either via hand-gestures or via a scroll with words written on it.
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