Art

Join the Pontifex Forum - an Online Community of Catholic Artists and Patrons on a Pilgrimage of Beauty

Join the Pontifex Forum - an Online Community of Catholic Artists and Patrons on a Pilgrimage of Beauty

John Henry Newman remarked that the greatest influence on his formation at Oxford was the community of students. Inspired by Newman’s ideas, the Pontifex Forum is a group of peers that stimulates discussion and creativity directed at promoting Catholicism and Catholic culture.

This is Spiritual Warfare - But Take Heart, the War is Won!

This is Spiritual Warfare - But Take Heart, the War is Won!

I am delighted that Sophia Institute Press is going to use my painting of St Michael for the cover of an upcoming book, Spiritual Warfare and the Discernment of Spirits, which will be published next month. Charlie McKinney of Sophia Institute Press told me that he chose it because he likes the sense of effortlessness ease with which St Michael deals with evil personified, the Devil.

A Technique for Memorizing Passages of the Liturgy When You Are an Old Man!

A Technique for Memorizing Passages of the Liturgy When You Are an Old Man!

Is your memory so bad that you even forget what it is you’re supposed to remember? That’s what I’m like. I’m trying to combat this with a technique that uses the psalms and sacred art to improve it. It will help deepen my participation in the liturgy too. That’s the hope at any rate.