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The bell of the historic Torre del Micalet, or El Miguelete, the bell tower of Valencia Cathedral in Spain. iStock.
Arts & CultureDispatches
Bridget Ryder
Bell ringing has a rich history, integrated into daily and liturgical life year-round, a tradition being rediscovered and appreciated by anthropologists, academics, musicians and an increasing number of ordinary people.
‘Pieta (after Delacroix),’ by Vincent van Gogh (1889)
Arts & CultureIdeas
Marie Glancy O’Shea
Looking at the Van Goghs we see a few parallels with the Holy Family, who knew humiliation and repudiation.
 “The Railway,” Édouard Manet, 1873 (National Gallery of Art)
Arts & CultureArt
Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J.
150 years after the birth of Impressionism, two dazzling shows have been mounted.
FaithPodcasts
Jesuitical
On “Jesuitical” this week, Zac and Ashley chat with Colleen Dulle, co-host of the “Inside the Vatican” podcast, about how realistically the new film “Conclave” portrays the process of selecting a new pope. 
Arts & CultureNews
OSV News
Sotheby’s is facilitating the sale of what it says is an approximately 1,500-year-old tablet, which it describes as “the only complete tablet of the Ten Commandments still extant from this early era.”
Photo of Jean Charlot, ca. 1923, by Tina Modotti; woodcut of “Rich People in Hell” by Jean Charlot (Copyright the Jean Charlot Estate LLC. With permission)
Arts & CultureArt
Lawrence Downes
Jean Charlot was the friend and peer of Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and other now-renowned Mexican muralists. But in one important way, he was not one of them.