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St. Peter’s Basilica hires two women to its elite team of artisans

St. Peter’s Basilica hired two women to its team of “sanpietrini,” the church’s specialized artisans and workers, for the first time since the basilica’s maintenance office was established 500 years ago.

Restoring statues becomes a ministry for this parishioner

When Cyndy Flores-Mocarski and her husband found their perfect house in 2015 located just three blocks from St. Francis Borgia Parish, where her husband serves as a deacon, she was overjoyed. But unbeknownst to her, a statue of Jesus given to them as housewarming gift would launch a new side ministry.

Sculptures can evangelize, connect people to God, artist says

Artist Timothy P. Schmalz sees his sculptures as a way to evangelize, especially to people who don’t think they are looking for Christ in their lives.

Grad student creates Stations of the Cross with migration theme

When Jacqueline Romo was considering what to do for her senior thesis project at Dominican University in 2019, she drew on her personal and faith journeys for inspiration and created “The Passion of the Monarca Migrante,” which uses the monarch butterfly and the plight of migrants to depict the Stations of the Cross.

Sinner and sage: Despite troubled life, Caravaggio mastered spiritual meanings

Considered one of Caravaggio’s best masterpieces, “The Entombment of Christ” was covetously confiscated by the French for its newly opened Louvre Museum as Napoleon swept down the Italian peninsula in the late 18th century.

Murals at Fullerton L stop highlight history of DePaul University

After seven years of work with dozens of DePaul University art students, Vincentian Brother Mark Elder recently completed work on 25 murals that wrap the cement support pillars at the Chicago Transit Authority’s Fullerton Red, Brown and Purple Line L stop.

Pastor uses art to support breakfasts for the homeless

“I’ve said to people that I was born with a package of crayons in my mother’s womb,” said Servite Father Christopher Krymski, pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica and director of the National Shrine of St. Peregrine, 3121 W. Jackson Blvd. “My father was an artist and I think the DNA may have gone down to me.”

St. Gregory’s Hall part of parish’s unique evangelization effort

Parishioners at Mary, Mother of God Parish filled St. Gregory Church on Sept. 3 for a liturgy to celebrate that church’s patron, St. Gregory the Great. But it was not just any Mass, because the new St. Gregory’s Hall artist-in-resident Kevin Allen was conducting the choir in singing Gregorian chant in homage to the church’s patron.

Friends of the Windows ‘open the doors to beauty’

It was some time around Christmas 1994 when Neal Ball first saw the stained-glass windows that illuminate St. James Chapel in the Archbishop Quigley Center, now the pastoral center for the Archdiocese of Chicago.

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.
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