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Langston Hughes wrote a short poem entitled “Justice”: That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes. Hughes was a…
In 1618, the Spanish artist Diego Velázquez painted “Christ in the House of Martha and Mary.” The work, done in oil on canvas, depicts two women in the kitchen, one young, the other elderly. The young woman,…
As a teenager, I heard of two sisters who had come to live in our town, and who people said were prostitutes. I grew up in a quiet rural environment, with practically no contact with urban centers.…
The 16th-century art historian Giorgio Vasari hailed “The Transfiguration” as Raphael’s “most beautiful and most divine” work. At the Louvre, where it stayed for a time, it competed with Titian’s “The Death of St. Peter Martyr” for…
The 16th-century Portuguese painter and art critic Francisco da Hollanda hailed his contemporary, the Flemish artist Simon Bening, as the greatest master of illumination (the decoration of manuscripts) in all of Europe. While boning up on Bening,…
Use social media to evangelize. This was the challenge posed by Bishop Robert Barron of Los Angeles, USA, in response to the growing number of Catholics who either stopped going to Mass or converted to other religions.…
(4th Week in Ordinary Time) 1st Reading: 2 Sam 24: 2, 9-17 / Gospel: Mk 6:1-6 Jesus returned to his own country, and his disciples followed him. When the Sabbath came, he began teaching in the synagogue,…
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