Beginning in 1998, the Institute for Sacred Architecture has existed to foster a return to the sacred, to learn from the richness of our ecclesiastical heritage, and to encourage the commissioning of new classical and Gothic churches.
Visitors traveling through the Cincinnati area might well stop to see the Greek Revival Cathedral Basilica of Saint Peter in Chains. However, they may not realize that across the Ohio River, in the city of Covington, Kentucky, can be found the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption, a true architectural high Gothic jewel.
Much has been said recently about the moral failings of ex-Jesuit Father Marko Rupnik. But what of the failures of his art?
Some readers may have noticed that the Catholic Church has been striving the past few years to restore belief in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
Our great Covid panic may be gone, but the residual effects of the Covid pandemic are still with us.