In the journal First Things, venture capitalist and philanthropist Frank Hanna tells author Maggie Gallagher that, during the Renaissance, “people commissioned great works of art for the Church but they also gave this same beauty as gifts to those they loved, and to the communities in which they lived.”

Today, a resurgence of this type of patronage is nourishing a cultural and liturgical renaissance and our recording of the Mass of the Americas with the Benedict XVI Choir and Orchestra is one of the results. The album is available on Cappella Records.