Schmalz explained that the 14 stations will be his most complex sculpture yet, second only to his acclaimed Angels Unawares that is now in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican and at Catholic University ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A Catholic sculptor wants to keep the church relevant with his art, but as mounting secularism and the COVID-19 pandemic challenge the institution, the artist claims the devil is ...

Hanson's years as a corrections officer made him want to bring beauty and goodness into the world through his art. But his Catholic faith also helped him see his “day job” as a calling from God. “If ...

Sondra Jonson sees her purpose as a Catholic artist as one of teaching and inspiring, like the great Catholic painters and sculptors of old. From the time she was 5 years old, Sondra Jonson knew ...

Timothy Schmalz’s sculpture “When I Was Sick” is displayed on a Rome street Feb. 9, 2017. The artist will create a replica of the statue that will be part of a COVID-19 memorial planned for Mercy ...

Pope Julius II had Michelangelo and Raphael. Pope Francis has Timothy Schmalz. In the same way that the 16th-century Renaissance artists left an indelible mark on the Vatican through work that still ...

Canadian sculptor Timothy Schmalz creates from true devotion, a self-taught sculptor who for more than 30 years has devoted his primarily bronze creations to the glorification of the Catholic Church ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In preparation for the 700 th anniversary of the death of medieval poet Dante Alighieri, a Canadian artist is creating a sculptural tribute to his “Divine Comedy” that would be ...

The sculpture “Angels Unawares” is seen at The Catholic University of America in Washington April 22, 2022. The life-size sculpture, which depicts a group of migrants and refugees crowded on a boat, ...

A federal court is expected to decide next week whether a state-run university must remove an anti-Catholic sculpture from campus grounds. The sculpture of a Catholic bishop with a grotesque facial ...

In a career spanning more than four decades, prominent Korean sculptor Han Jin-seop has crafted dozens of stone sculptures that majestically feature in various places including churches, parks, ...

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) - An Idaho art gallery has received some flak from the Catholic community for a sculpture sitting in its storefront window. Coeur d'Alene Press reported Thursday that Bob ...