I am particularly pleased to see people looking to the gothic period for inspiration in the art and design for new churches!

Art is the product of artifice and is by nature artificial. Artificial intelligence is a misnoma. It is a creation of the programmer who created the algorithm and is not itself creative. It is artificial, like art, but it’s not intelligence.

T demand for good art, whether stimulated by offering originals or reproductions, will benefit the sales of both...and add to the well being of the world incalculably through the prayer that it will inspire.

What is sad for me, is not so much that people who hate the Church and Mary, want to destroy the symbolism that supports it and replace it with signs of the anti-Christ and the anti-Mary. One would expect that. The dismay is how little pushback there is from those who believe and ought to know better.

Harmony, monotony and cacophony are the good, the bad and the ugly of architectural form.

The guild is dedicated to the promotion and support of Catholic artists and this year’s conference will feature Alexander Stoddart, Sculptor in Ordinary for Her Majesty the Queen in Scotland.

I believe that this approach of where the artist describes form with line, rather than tonal or color variation offers artists a way of painting that eliminates the scourge of naturalism today which is sentimentality. I would encourage artists and patrons to look at this as an option for covering large areas of their church walls.

The goal of the group of singers to first to be able to sing the Office confidentally, and then for us to be able to pass it on to others. The hope is that the prisoners will learn to sing with us, then without us, and to be able to teach others to join in.

A Monasatic Experience Weekend: if you are exploring a religious vocation, interested in taking a retreat, or just curious about what it’s like to be a monk, this is for you!

The more ingrained the good habits and skills are, the better the quality of the work regardless of mood. In a totally different context, the South African golfer, Gary Player always used to say something that is nevertheless apropos: ‘The more I practice, the luckier I get.’

To the degree that we fail to engage with the art in our churches, no matter how beautiful, it is relegated to the role of mood inducing decoration, working through color and abstract shape. We might as well be sitting in the Rothko Chapel as the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.