Michael Centore

Michael Centore

Michael Centore is the editor of Today’s American Catholic. His essays and articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, U.S. Catholic, Religious Socialism, and other print- and web-based publications.

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The Gordon B. Lankton Gallery located in the upper level of the Icon Museum and Study Center in Clinton, Massachusetts, the only museum in the United States devoted to icons and Eastern Christian art. (Michael Centore)

Icon Museum and Study Center fosters spiritual and aesthetic contemplation

The Icon Museum and Study Center is a U.S. museum devoted to icons and Eastern Christian art. Walking through the galleries spread over three levels was as much a prayerful experience as an aesthetic one.

This eighth-century Nubian wall painting depicts the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus, modeled on the icon of the Virgin Hodegetria ("She Who Shows the Way"). It is part of the "Africa and Byzantium" exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through March 3 and at the Cleveland Museum of Art April 14-July 21. (Michael Centore)

'Africa & Byzantium' show traces sacred histories of Christian antiquity

Viewing "Africa & Byzantium" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Michael Centore was "aware of the human dimensions" of the objects and people used them, he writes. 

The Golden Rule docked at City Pier in New London, Connecticut, prior to a sail on June 9. (Michael Centore)

Golden Rule boat sets sail for 'a nuclear-free world'

Called the world's first modern protest ship, the Golden Rule is now undertaking a 13-month, 11,000-mile journey on waterways around the eastern half of the U.S. to draw attention to the dangers of nuclear weapons.

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