When Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press around 1440 in Germany, everything changed. For the first time, words didn’t have to be meticulously hand...
Art
Discover U.S. Catholic’s art coverage—stories and reflections on creativity and the diverse voices shaping contemporary Catholic imagination.
The Second Vatican Council’s Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World begins by underscoring the church’s humanity and empathy: “The joys...
On a mild December evening in 2015, a red pickup truck inched past an Islamic center in Philadelphia, just as the city was giving way to darkness. On its...
The day after my grandmother Helen died, I needed my GPS to drive routes that I should have known easily. I struggled to find items on my list at the grocery...
A year before I became a Catholic, I went on a retreat to an Orthodox monastery north of Columbus, Ohio. The monks occupied an old farm house and converted the...
On March 26, 2015, the U.S. Postal Service issued a collection of stamps honoring the art of Martín Ramírez. At the time of his death, in February 1963 at...
In 1990, as the country prepared to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus, something in Father John Giuliani’s heart recoiled...
Our family was visiting our pastor’s house when our daughter Teenasia, then 9, commented on a framed print on the wall. It was a black Madonna and child. “That...
An epic quest for cultural identity unfolds in the pages of Gene Luen Yang’s graphic novels. When Pope John Paul II canonized 120 Catholics from China in 2000...
Fra Angelico [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons In Dante Allegheri’s epic poem Inferno, those words are inscribed over the gates of hell. Written in the...
