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So…did you go to any museums in Rome? Well, strictly speaking, except for the Vatican Museums…no. No need to, not when you’ve got Bernini in the churches. (Although I was sort of hoping, somehow, to squeeze in the Capitoline, but no. Didn’t work.) For our art, we stuck with the churches, which of course, are…

I followed the Sistine Chapel restoration controversy at a distance as it occurred years ago, so I was particularly interested to see a couple of unrestored, uncleaned patches that have been left up for the sake of comparison. Those patches are…dark. Really dark. So here’s my question. Who saw the Sistine Chapel before the restoration?…

From the category: "Why didn’t we think of this in the first place?" One the very last day of our trip, as noted below, we went to San Croce in Gerusalemme, to venerate the relics there, explore the church, meet some Cistercians and, as it happened, tour their small museum. I had a small memo…

Against the Grain has one of those typically excellent round-ups of news and commentary on Benedict XVI from the past couple of weeks. Oh, and Here’s a Zenit story on what B. said to the univeristy students on Saturday evening: The fundamental truth of the Christian faith is that "God is love," the Pope told…
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