Over the past 20 years, French-born painter Philippe Casanova has been enriching the Roman cultural and artistic landscape with his original contemporary Baroque creations.

Two sacred art experts have stressed the importance of the Catholic visual arts in the new evangelization, saying the arts have the potential to change individual lives, and cultures as a whole.

The fascinating intersection of 19th-century Tamil Catholic art and architecture in Northern Sri Lanka is now on display at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, as part of the “Cultural Mosaic ...