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Chicago-area architect turns 67,000 tiny LEGO pieces into Vatican City State replica

We all know Rome wasn’t built in a day, but LEGO architect Rocco Buttliere had three months, which definitely gave him a running start over Julius Caesar.

Holy women, men focus of series by longtime iconographer

Joe Malham is well known for his work as an iconographer. The artist-in-residence at St. Gregory the Great Church at Mother of God Parish, 5545 N. Paulina St., has created a new series featuring modern holy women and men who did great things during their lifetimes.

St. John Cantius turns steps into art for Corpus Christi

When European Catholics celebrate Corpus Christi, they often make carpets in the street out of flowers or sand to honor Christ in the Eucharist. In that spirit, St. John Cantius Parish, 825. N. Carpenter St., has created eucharistic images on its front steps for the solemnity and the procession that follows Mass for the past 10 years.

Bishop Bartosic revisits acting roots at St. Gregory Church

When Auxiliary Bishop Mark Bartosic entered the priesthood, he left his days as a professional actor behind. But on Feb. 8, he revisited his acting roots in the performance “Broken Fount: The Letters of Abelard and Heloise” at St. Gregory the Great Church, 5545 N. Paulina St.

David Lee Csicsko: Making the saints accessible today

Well-known Chicago artist and lifelong Catholic David Lee Csicsko creates happy images of saints. With their bright colors, cheery round faces and objects relevant to the saints’ lives, such as roses for St. Therese of Lisieux, his images could be considered modern-day iconography.

Local group helps preserve art in Vatican Museums

For 25 years, Catholics from the Archdiocese of Chicago and across Illinois have been among those contributing to the restoration of priceless works of art in the Vatican Museums.

Art at St. Benedict the African reflects experience of black Catholics

In the 1970s, when Cardinal Joseph Bernardin asked Catholics in Englewood what they wanted the church in their neighborhood to look like, they said, “themselves.”

Art Institute exhibit illustrates Gauguin’s eclectic spirituality

When Paul Gauguin arrived in Tahiti in 1981 sporting long hair and a wide-brimmed hat, the French, post-impressionist painter expected a culture that the West had largely left untainted. But the locals he met, who called him “taata vahine” (man-woman), weren’t noble savages.

The country’s ‘most beautiful’ church

It’s official; St. John Cantius is the most beautiful Catholic Church in the country. Or a...

Vatican chapel architect was a ‘pencil in God’s hand’

Since he was elected in 2013 and decided to live in the Domus Sanctae Marthae instead of the apostolic apartments, Pope Francis has said daily Mass in the Chapel of the Holy Spirit located just next to the modest hotel...
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