St. Ignatius College

A Vast, Immeasurable Sanctuary: Iconography for Churches

The subject of iconography, the creation or study of images with specific narrative or symbolic intent, raises complex aesthetic and philosophical questions for the modern world about the universal legibility of pictorial messages.

Pope Benedict XVI on Architecture

Quotes on architecture by Pope Benedict XVI.

The Reservation of the Blessed Sacrament

by His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI PP,
written as Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger

Sacramentum Caritatis

Selections From the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation

Church Architecture and the Corporal Works of Mercy: A New Kind of Aid to Colombia

When Father John McGuire left the United States to serve as a missionary priest in Cali, Colombia, he quickly came to realize the extreme need of the common people on the streets—those who have been most affected by the illegal drug trafficking and the many civil war conflicts.