Catholic Charities Celebrates Black History Month With Art Lesson
February 12, 2025By Currents News Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens is celebrating Black History Month by teaching adults how to create their own African […]
Topic: Arts
Seniors Express Creativity Through Art Class With Catholic Charities
February 6, 2025By Currents News In addition to feeding the hungry, Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens gives seniors a chance to get in touch […]
Rondanini Pietà Replica Has a New Home in New Jersey Cemetery
November 22, 2024By Jessica Easthope It’s the first thing you see driving into Gate of Heaven Cemetery in East Hanover, New Jersey: a 10-foot […]
From on High: A Rare Glimpse From the Top of St. Peter’s Baldachin
October 29, 2024During the Synod’s final Mass on Oct. 27, Bernini’s Baldacchino was seen for the first time since undergoing renovations for Rome’s jubilee. […]
‘Do This in Memory of Me’ Art Exhibit Inspired by the National Eucharistic Revival
July 17, 2024By Jessica Easthope How do you depict one of the greatest mysteries the world has ever known? Do you do it with […]
Cartoonist Creates Catholic Superheroes in Comic Series
July 8, 2024By Katie Vasquez Sketching with just a pencil and paper. Cartoonist and illustrator Melinda Steffen, also known as Mindy Indy, loves to […]
Queens Parishioner Restores Sacred Images Across Diocese of Brooklyn
March 5, 2024by Katie Vasquez In the basement of Flophina Modeste Morris’ Jamaica, Queens home, she often refurbishes sacred images, including the Saint Joseph […]
17th-Century Masterpiece Thought to be Lost Forever, Discovered in New Rochelle Church
September 28, 2021By Beth Griffin and Emily Drooby NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (CNS) — A parish in a neighborhood that once had the highest concentration […]
The Emmaus Center: Historic Brooklyn Opera House to be New Arts Center in the Diocese of Brooklyn
July 1, 2021By Emily Drooby A hidden piece of history in Williamsburg, Brooklyn was built in 1897. It’s one of the first opera houses […]
A Behind-The-Scenes Look Inside Notre Dame Cathedral’s Reconstruction Two Years After Fire
April 8, 2021Currents News Staff Two years after a devastating fire blazed through the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, specialists are still working hard […]