The Institute for Sacred Architecture

Volume 49 — Spring 2026

Editorial

E Pluribus Unam Sanctam Catholicam

by Duncan G. Stroik

Articles

The Church Builder: Patrick Charles Keely

by Robert T. Murphy

The First Catholic Church in the Colonies: St. Mary’s Chapel Reconstruction

by Henry M. Miller

On Foreign Soil at Home: London Embassy Chapels

by Steven Dunn

Lord, It Is Good for Us To Be Here: The Role of Eucharistic Adoration Chapels

by Daniel P. DeGreve

Principles for a Complete Church and the Legacy of Owen Jones

by David Riccio and Hope Ensing

Do Four Walls Make a Church?

by Randall B. Smith

Book Reviews

Architecture After God: Babel Resurgent

by Kyle Dugdale
reviewed by Thomas M. Dietz

The Women Artists, Their Patrons, and their Publics in Early Modern Bologna

by Babette Bohn
reviewed by Gwyneth Thompson-Briggs

De Arte Sacra

The “Saint Francis Effect” and the Renaissance

by Elizabeth Lev

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