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Francis Votes Present

Earlier this month Sandro Magister’s Chiesa broadcast an interesting particular in the Masses celebrated by Pope Francis: At the moment of communion, Pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio does not administer it himself, but allows others to give the consecrated host to the faithful. He sits down and waits for the distribution of the sacrament to be completed. […]

Beckmann’s Deposition, a Modernist Offering

We who live in the Western world at the present time continue to suffer under the reign of a great tyranny — the tyranny of artistic modernism. New English Review , August 2012   It gets tiring, this lingering need to swipe at modernism. To the extent a date applies, the waning of modernism hovers […]

Catholic Art?

The previous post ended with reference to what “the centuries have wrought.” A reader emailed me to ask—hopefully—if I was referring to modernism. No, not at all. In mind was the kind of emasculate anti-art rampant on plaques, statuary, prayer cards in funeral parlors, and too often in our own churches.buy vilitra generic https://newonlineandblo.com/vilitra.html over […]

Beloved Piero

Bernard Berenson called Piero della Francesca “the mighty Tuscan.” Among contemporary painters, he remains the best loved of Renaissance painters, influential to a range of modern artists whose debt to him might not be readily apparent. buy bactroban online https://latinohealthaccess.org/wp-content/themes/twentyfourteen/inc/php/bactroban.html no prescription Nevertheless, renowned as he is among artists, he is not widely known to […]

Mater Gloriosa

Pray for us O holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

The Museum of Motherhood

Motherhood, as you understand and honor it, is passé. Outmoded. It has faded into a quant bit of Americana, an artifact of folklore like Johnny Appleseed or Aunt Jemima. That is the undisquised message of the Museum of Motherhood (MOM), established this past January on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Following the lead of “museums” of […]

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