So the beautiful sacred art and liturgy is essential to the faith. We know from a historical perspective, over 2,000 years of the history of the Catholic Church, there has never been a time when ...

Museums are great levelers. Inside their walls, narratives, portraits, icons and altarpieces become paintings; crucifixes, totems and temple gods become sculptures; sacred objects, out of context ...

Sacred Congregation of Rites, Instruction Eucharisticum mysterium (May 25th, 1967) Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Instruction Redemptionis Sacramentum (March ...

Sacred art, after all, must be worthy not just of museums, the public or the faithful—but of the gods. Living With the Gods: Art, Beliefs and Peoples.

The famous bust of Nefertiti is an example of this kind of art, which marked a departure from traditional ritual forms in favor of a more naturalistic, human approach. The Nefertiti Bust, 1352–1332 BC ...

The Catholic Art Institute is a Chicago-based nonprofit dedicated to the promotion of traditional sacred art. From classes and artists’ workshops, to lectures, online competitions, musical ...

Islamic sacred art takes a different route. It reaches past the physical restraints that bind us to this world, subordinating them to higher forms of being, to acknowledge a God who is as imperative ...

Receiving the sacred host on our tongue ensures that we do not treat Christ’s presence as an ordinary piece of bread. Reception of holy Communion on the tongue has been a tradition of the Church ...

In the Eucharist, we not only drink the blood of the Lamb that takes away the sin of the world, but also the blood of the Ox who raises us to heaven and returns us to Eden.

When Father Michael of Bergamo oversaw the Capuchin Crypt, he created a sacred space, one that honored the dead and offered a space of contemplation and worship for the living. He was neither the ...