Returning Catholics FAQs: All That Artwork

O n Mondays, I answer questions frequently asked by those considering a return to the Catholic Church. How do I know this stuff? I was away for more than 30 years myself, and am the co-author of When They Come Home: Ways to Welcome Returning Catholics , a book for pastors and parish leaders interested in this ministry.

I went to Rome with some other lapsed Catholic friends. We all thought the amount of artwork on the Vatican tour was obscene. Why doesn’t the Church sell some of it to help the p...