Opus Dei

Director Jumpei Matsumoto and Bishop Toshihiro Sakai discuss forgiveness, friendship with God, and how an actor's craft can be a path to becoming "another Christ."

We bring this series to a close with an invitation to the beauty of the everyday: to discover how the objects we use in daily life resonate with our interior life, to the use of "human devices" that rouse the heart when it grows distracted, and to discovering the importance of form in shaping our world in a more Christian, and therefore more beautiful, way.

Cinema is “an intersection of desires, memories and questions,” Pope Leo XIV tells us. Here are a few suggestions for turning our time in front of a screen into genuine moments of contemplation.

“In weeping for the fate of their characters,” Pope Francis wrote in his letter on the role of literature in formation, “we are essentially weeping for ourselves.” From Jesus’ parables to modern novels, literature has always had a mysterious influence on our interior world.

This is the beginning of a series on the arts as spaces for spiritual life. In this first article, we will consider how the Incarnation — the fact that God chose to take on a physical form — reveals the true value of the material world, and, with it, the potential of the arts.

In celebration of the Jubilee for Artists, 15 to 18 February 2025, we interviewed Cody, an American artist who studied sacred art in Florence.