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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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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