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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Category: Art and Architecture
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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The Myth of Noble Simplicity
Liturgical clarity does not mean artistic simplicity.
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Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome
“Participation and sacramental realism seem to be the most significant, fruitful, and basic concepts of church planning (art and architecture) in the 20th century.” – Fr. Cloud Meinberg OSB, 1959
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