How about a revolution of beauty? Catholic art can show the way. ‘Art and the saints are the greatest apologetic for our faith,” Pope Benedict XVI (now pope emeritus) has contended. In How Catholic ...

A devastating fire consumed parts of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Monday. While the biggest question is whether the structure itself will survive, there is no doubt that the artistic and ...

Catholic writer and art historian Elizabeth Lev is Mary Ann Glendon’s daughter. In a post at PoliticsDaily.com, Lev — who lives in Rome and is a regular contributor to Zenit news service — discusses ...

Elizabeth Lev’s weekly column for Zenit highlights a Roman way of celebrating All Saints Day: racing from church to church to raise money for charity. More than 2,000 participants took off from St.

As evening fell on Paris last night, the massive fire burning atop Notre Dame Cathedral lit up the darkening sky and drew shocked stares from around the city and the world. The Gothic structure, one ...

NEW YORK — As the Catholic Church struggled to recover from the tumultuous effects of the Protestant Reformation, art historian Elizabeth Lev believes that it was the Church’s embrace of art that ...

A young man holding a rosary prays in front of Notre Dame Cathedral April 16, 2019, after a fire broke out in Paris. Officials said the cause was not clear, but that the April 15 blaze could be linked ...

She may be a bit biased, but her response is still spot-on. Professor Glendon was to have been honored for not only for her scholarship, but for her second career, her pro-bono work – ranging from the ...

Architecturally, the Cathedral of Notre Dame of Paris spanned the age of endurance to the era of transcendence. Begun in 1163 when the sturdy Romanesque style demanded chunky columns and ...

VATICAN CITY — Thomas Williams, the onetime public face of the disgraced Legion of Christ religious order who left the priesthood after admitting he fathered a son, is getting married this weekend to ...