Smithsonian Magazine

See How These Medieval Artists Explored the Many Meanings of Love and Desire in a New Exhibition at the Met Cloisters

The show features more than 50 paintings, manuscripts, textiles and other artworks created in Western Europe between the 13th ...
Catholic News Agency

How to convey the serenity of a martyr? The challenge of painting Peter To Rot’s portrait

The Vatican commissioned Spanish Catholic artist Raúl Berzosa to paint the official portrait of St. Peter To Rot, who was ...
Smithsonian Magazine

In Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein,’ the Titular Scientist Laments His Nightmarish Creation. But the Real World Can’t Get Enough of His Monster

In the two centuries since the Gothic novel's publication, the English writer's tale of a science experiment gone wrong has ...
National Catholic Register

Miracle Recipient Knows Why Saint John Henry Newman Is Newest Doctor of the Church

Seek his guidance to grow in faith,’ says Chicago mother of seven whose 2013 cure raised the English cardinal and convert to ...