At first glance, “Jesus in Art and Literature” (Abrams, 2022) looks and feels like a conventional “coffee table book,” a bound collection of pictures, meant as much for display as for ...

Art must make perceptible, and as far as possible attractive, the world of the spirit, of the invisible, of God.” “I knew this instinctively: Art and beauty has been a part of our culture.

I hung the painting as a tribute to my grandmother, who looked at us with the love and awe with which one might look at the child Jesus. She let us know we were important.

SCRIPTURES & ART: It is only in our sacramental encounter with Jesus — in the Holy Eucharist — that our eyes are fully opened to him, not just about him.

Clara Maria Goldstein of La Crosse, who has crafted more than 50 paintings of Jesus throughout his life, displays the one she did for this Good Friday. Goldstein, who was raised Catholic but is ...

Amen.” Some Catholic students who claimed that the painting was offensive to their faith started a petition for the painting’s removal.