The Vatican Museums announced that restoration work has begun on Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgement” in the Sistine Chapel, a fresco an art historian describes as “a clarion call to the cardinals of what it means to be Catholic.”
Spiraling organ and choral music ushered in a new era for St. Lawrence Basilica in Asheville Oct. 17 at a ceremony to kickstart a massive restoration project for the historic building.
It was the evening of April 15, 2019, and Notre Dame Cathedral — an 850-plus-year-old, stone-and-mortar monument to human ingenuity and religious aspiration — was burning.