THIS TERRIFYING CREATURE is the Piasa Bird , painted on the river bluffs upstream from Alton, Illinois. This is a loose, modern interpr...

A REMNANT OF a stained glass window, at Gus’ Pretzels , in south Saint Louis. The plaque reads: Brothers August and Bernard Koebbe,...

Miguel de Cervantes, the great Spanish writer, served as a Marine under the chivalric Don Juan of Austria, in the Holy League’s fleet duri...

THERE SEEMS TO BE a common idea floating around that the rites of the church, and church buildings themselves, ought to be plain and simp...

AN EXCERPT  from an unfinished poem The Fall of Arthur , by J.R.R. Tolkien: Foes before them, / flames behind them, ever east and onwar...

THE PROLIFIC WRITER Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), a prominent and influential essayist of the post-Victorian era, is much belov...

Ornament at the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis. Architectural ornament was for decades a lost art in the West, which is a shame bec...

“BEHOLD,” says Our Lord, “I make all things new” ( Rev. 21:5 ). Redemption applies not only to our souls, but also to our works — transform...

A charming elephant sculpture, in a fountain, decorated for Advent, at the Saint Louis Zoo.

FROM THE ARTICLE An Art Curriculum for Catholic Children , over at New Liturgical Movement : ...The approach is anchored highly on the hu...