Some American architects are looking to the past in order to remedy the defects of the modernistic designs of recent decades. Mass being celebrated at the central altar of Our Lady of Mount Carmel ...

Churches may be closing to the faithful amid the coronavirus outbreak, but the spiritual sustenance they provide continues with livestreamed Masses, prayer services and processions, which reveal the ...

While the Second Vatican Council has produced great fruit for the Catholic Church, it must be admitted that there have also been some disastrous consequences. One of the most negative results has been ...

(RNS) — Building churches is a small niche in architecture, and few designers have chosen to dedicate their lives to the practice. (RNS) — Steve Upham didn’t mean to get into the architecture of ...

Holy Name Cathedral in Steubenville, Ohio, first constructed in 1890 and extensively rebuilt in 1957. (Wikimedia Commons) Anyone who has spent time in a Catholic church of any architectural style has ...

Just a decade ago, few observers of the Catholic architectural scene would have predicted a comeback of traditional-looking churches like those currently being constructed in parish communities across ...

Church architecture has become a frontline of the liturgy wars as Catholic churches undergo re-renovations. Michael DeSanctis, a church building consultant and theology professor, is not pleased.

It was inevitable that when Mario Cucinella designed a church—his first in 35 years as an architect, 30 of those years at the helm of his own firm—it would showcase curves. As a young man, he says, he ...

In a dense residential area of the South Korean city of Gimpo, just west of Seoul, a church’s sculptural form breaks up the surrounding cityscape of banal apartment towers. Seoul-based IDMM Architects ...