Vatican restorers set to work on St Peter’s centrepiece
Vatican City Reuters The giant bronze-and-wood canopy in the middle of St Peter’s Basilica is being gradually engulfed by scaffolding as Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s masterpiece gets its first major restoration since the mid-1700s. The almost 30-metre-high canopy covers the high altar of the basilica, and was built on the spot where St Peter, the first […]
Anxiety
How are you? It seems with pandemics, global climate, political divisions, and social media we are living in the era of anxiety. Anxious? PICTURE: Joice Kelly/Unsplash By most measures we are living at perhaps the best time in history. Yet the uncertainty that is amplified through global media sure does pull the rug from under […]
BOOKS: A CLOSER LOOK AT THE WITNESS OF PETER
DAVID ADAMS looks at retired Australian Anglican bishop David Mulready’s Lentan study guide, ‘Peter at the Cross’…
SIGHT-SEEING: “YOUR HISTORY DOESN’T HAVE TO BE YOUR DESTINY”
NILS VON KALM on why your past doesn’t have to dictate your future…
Bones found in Rome point to St Peter but questions remain
The Church of Santa Maria in Cappella in Rome where the finds were discovered. PICTURE: Wikipedia Bone fragments which may have belonged to the apostle Peter have reportedly been founded in a Rome church during restoration works. The Telegraph reports that the bones were found in clay pots inside the 1,000-year-old Church of Santa Maria […]
SIGHT-SEEING: LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO BE SELFISH
Sight columnist NILS VON KALM looks at what living a life of meaning is all about…