After a terrible fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, the world is mourning damage to an architectural marvel and a holy space. This hour, we look at the interplay of religion and art. How can a physical structure like the cathedral carry such spiritual weight?

We also take you on a visit to an exhibit by a Connecticut artist with Down Syndrome. His illustrations of the Ten Commandments explores one of the best-known stories from the Old Testament of the Bible in a new light.

And we hear from a master artist of Sephardic music, a Jewish cultural tradition that was nearly wiped out during the Holocaust.

Does art shape your religious experience, or the way you think about your cultural traditions? 

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