As he approaches the icon in his Vancouver, British Columbia, studio, Andre Prevost places his hand on the unfinished work and prays. “You need to guide me on this. How do you want your icon to be ...
Two saintly women are stirring trouble, through no fault of their own, in this small Eastern New Mexico town of 3,000 people in Guadalupe County. One is Santa Rosa, the patroness of the Americas, whom ...
In Alaska, Deacon Rohrbacher’s icons hang from Catholic parishes in the Anchorage and Juneau dioceses, as well as in several Orthodox churches farther north. One of his most prominent works, completed ...
Even in Catholic circles, icons suffer from insufficient understanding. These images are often regarded as a mere style of art from Eastern Orthodox churches. What they are, however, are glimpses into ...
This icon of the Annunciation on the doors to the sanctuary is one of four new icons at Holy Eucharist Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in New Westminster, British Columbia. The parish is working to ...
This summer, a Polish art critic and historian laid down a challenge to a group of contemporary icon painters from Ukraine and Poland: depict "God's justice." Katarzyna Jakubowska-Krawczyk, head of ...
In the most recent clash between the government and the Catholic Church in the Philippines, authorities have banned hanging rosaries and religious icons in vehicles, citing safety concerns. According ...
Thousands of devotees thronged a church in the Philippine capital Saturday for a glimpse of a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ believed to have miraculous healing powers, after an annual Catholic ...
On an unseasonably warm autumn day in Columbus, Ohio, in 2016, Gracie Morbitzer recalls sifting through a box of free items at a cluttered yard sale. Beneath beat-up nail clippers and toilet paper ...
Juan Gonzáles practices the Afro-Cuban tradition of muerterismo, which inter-mingles Catholic and African iconography. In Gonzáles’ worldview Cuba’s patron saint, Our Lady of Charity, is linked to the ...
Roman Catholic devotees, some carrying miniature statues of the Black Nazarene, walk along a street during the "walk of faith" as they celebrate the annual feast of the Black Nazarene in Manila on ...
Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. SANTA ROSA — Two saintly women are stirring trouble, through no fault of their own, in this small Eastern New ...