Blood is either absent or decorously minimized in those images of Jesus’ Passion with which we are best familiar. The death of Jesus is only part of the Christ story; the momentous, history-shattering disclosure comes later. Accordingly, traditional Passion imagery inclines toward a reflective distance from the physical realities of a Roman scourging and crucifixion. […]

Francis Votes Present

Maureen Mullarkey

May 22, 2013

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

Maureen Mullarkey

May 20, 2013

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?

Maureen Mullarkey

May 16, 2013

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

Maureen Mullarkey

May 13, 2013

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 […]