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Home: Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Don Justo's Self Built Cathedral - Citynoise.orgJusto Gallego Martínez is building his very own Cathedral in Mejorada del Campo near Madrid, Spain. Read more... Dorothy Sayers - Carl OlsonIn an age of skepticism, cynicism, and false “freedoms,” Dorothy Sayers (1893-1957) was a passionate and occasionally scathing voice of reason. Like her friends C.S. Lewis, T.S. Eliot, and Charles Williams, Sayers was a brilliant Christian thinker, an Anglo-Catholic who took doctrine seriously and bristled at the growth of “fads, schisms, heresies, and anti-Christ” within the Church of England. Read more... Dumbledore has been diminished - Barbara KayHarry Potter series author J.K. Rowling has caused a sensation by revealing that the beloved headmaster of Hogwarts and Harry Potter’s mentor, protector and sometimes surrogate father, Albus Dumbledore, is gay. Read more... Earth - Frederica Mathewes-GreenEarth, the first release from the Disneynature films, lives up to its publicity; this film is 85 minutes of jaw-droppingly beautiful clouds, waterfalls, icebergs, and savannahs; of graceful animals, scary animals, funny animals, and excruciatingly cute baby animals. Read more... Ecstasy and Solitude - Stephen HoughAs a teenager, Liszt possessed a desire to enter the priesthood. In fact, in each "of the phases of Liszt's life, a definite pattern of withdrawal, search "for God, and reflection upon personal vocation can be seen. Read more... Edith Sitwell: Modernity and Tradition - Joseph PearceEdith Sitwell was a shock-trooper of the poetic avant garde, a champion of modernity who revelled in the use of shock tactics to push the boundaries of poetry, angering traditionalists in the process. Perhaps, therefore, she would seem an unlikely convert to the creed and traditions of the Catholic Church. Yet, like her friend, “the ultra-modern novelist” Evelyn Waugh, she would come to realize that the liberating power of orthodoxy could transfuse tradition with the dynamism of truth. Read more... Endo's Borrowed Faith - JOAN FRAWLEY DESMONDThe tension between art and faith in the work of a novelist who happens to be a Catholic is nothing new. Read more... Evelyn Waugh: Ultramodern to Ultramontane - Joseph PearceEvelyn Waugh’s conversion to the Catholic faith in 1930 was greeted with astonishment by the literary world and caused a sensation in the media. It seemed incomprehensible that an author notorious for his “almost passionate adherence to the ultramodern” could have joined the Catholic Church. Part of the reason for the extensive interest in Waugh’s conversion, was the growing awareness that his reception into the Church was only the latest of a long and lengthening list of literary converts to the Catholic faith. Read more... Ever Ancient, Ever New: The Catholic Writer in the Modern World - GREGORY WOLFEIt is not possible within the scope of this presentation to give an historical account of the origins of the Catholic Intellectual Renaissance and its influence on modern thought. Read more... Example and Empathy - William Kilpatrick, Gregory Wolfe, and Suzanne M. WolfeHow do stories help to encourage character? Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 05-Nov-2009 - 15:26:44
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