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Home: Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Objections to The Passion: Is It As It Was? - Rev. Thomas Williams, L.C.Is it true, as asserted by some biblical scholars and media pundits, that The Passion of the Christ is rife with historical and theological errors? Father Thomas Williams, a theological consultant for the film, provides answers. Read more... Of Gods and Men - James BowmanIt's still only March, but I don't hope to see a better movie this year than Xavier Beauvois's Of Gods and Men (Des hommes et des dieux), winner of the Grand – meaning second – Prize at last year's Cannes Festival. Read more... Of Weeds & Fairy Tales: The Idylls, Idols & Devils That Corrupt the Moral Imagination - Vigen GuroianI am a gardener, and the good essay on gardening pays attention to the characteristics and habits of weeds. This is an essay on the moral imagination, and so I must pay attention to some of the worst and most unholy forms of imagination, forms that spread like the weeds in an ill-kept flower garden and choke out the best cultivars. Read more... Oh, the Civility! - Robert J. HughesWhat's My Line? — a Sunday night fixture on CBS from 1950 to 1967 — is a bracing antidote to today's dispiriting talk-a-thons, humiliating reality shows and hostile cable-news programs. Read more... Old Faithful - Lionel ShriverAmericans disapprove of marital infidelity — in the movies, at least. Read more... Old Man and the Sky - Chris KnightIf critics were the grumpy, movie-weary churls some people imagine, we’d be stalking out of Up muttering how someday, someday, Pixar is going to make a film that doesn't work. But we’re human, and most of us practically skipped from the theatre, feeling like we had helium balloons tied to our ankles. Read more... On Being a Catholic Writer - RALPH MCINERNYBeing a Catholic writer has nothing to do with whether there are nuns or priests in the story, whether there is an explicit reference to Catholic things. Read more... On Fairy Tales and the Moral Imagination - Vigen GuroianThe moral education of children must engage the heart as well as the mind. These troubling times excite concern for the safety and protection of our children — but merely securing their physical well-being does not address the root of their peril. The moral imaginations of our children have been neglected and are being crippled. Read more... On Romance - Mark SheaI've been watching old Jimmy Stewart movies again, which always has a strong effect on me. Read more... On the Nature of the Crucifix - Lance EsplundThe crucifixion is the central image in Christian art and the focus of Christian devotion. Read more... Ontological Splendor: Flannery O’Connor in the Protestant South - Glenn C. ArberyDrawing on Thomas Aquinas and fortified by the work of Étienne Gilson, Jacques Maritain, and Josef Pieper, Flannery O'Connor added a Thomistic underpinning to her understanding of the poetic image and the particular thing. Read more... Open Season on Beauty - Frederica Mathewes-Green“I didn’t like the part in the restaurant,” Hannah, my 6-year-old granddaughter, said. We were leaving a screening of Sony’s new animated feature, Open Season, and I was trying to remember any scene in a restaurant. Read more... Oscar Wilde, Roman Catholic - Jeffery A. TuckerOscar Wilde (1854-1900), has been gaining in popularity though his personal lifestyle, rather than his artistic achievements, still remains the main focus of public attention. Wilde’s flamboyance and eccentricity raise even more questions when contrasted to his lifelong fascination and struggle with Catholicism, and to its influence on his work. Read more... Out of the East: The Architecture of Byzantium - Michael S. RoseConstantine's new capital, built on the remains of the ancient Greek city-state called Byzantium, is important to understanding Byzantine architecture. Read more... Outback Benedictines adopt cultural business methods - Samson Spanier“Your drawing is much better than ours.”: So said Hugo Chapman of the British Museum when confronted with a tempera study of a head from Raphael’s workshop. This head of an apostle is notable not only for its quality but also for its ownership: the community of Benedictine monks of New Norcia, western Australia. Read more... Peddling pagan temptations - Father Raymond J. de SouzaA confessor of mine once delivered himself of this sage aphorism: If there is not enough time to read the good books, there cannot be any time to waste reading the bad ones. I doubt he has read The Da Vinci Code. Read more... Philip Pullman and the Seduction of Children - Pete VereMeet Philip Pullman, the man whom English author Peter Hitchens refers to as “the most dangerous author in Britain.” Read more... Picture Books that Build Character - William Kilpatrick, Gregory Wolfe, and Suzanne M. WolfeHere is a list of recommended picture books (that build character). Read more... Pope Benedict XVI, Mozart and the Quest of Beauty - Mark FreerWolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg on 27th January 1756, and his 250th anniversary is being celebrated this year in concert halls and on the airwaves all over the Western world. Read more... Postmortem on a Rebirth: The Catholic Intellectual Renaissance - JAMES HITCHCOCKJames Hitchcock traces the significance and influence of this movement, the thought and contributions of its major figures, and the reasons for its eventual decline. Read more... Praying With Mozart and China - Father Joseph Tham, LCMuch of the world is looking to the Olympics in Beijing next month as the major 2008 landmark in China’s relationship with the West. Read more... Preface & chapter 2: Emptying Ourselves of What We Think We Know - Anthony Esolen"To find the 'canon' of Western literature back in the hands, not only of a man who knows that canon, but who loves it as a true man of letters and as one who unabashedly shares the vision which suffused those centuries, is a pleasure almost beyond telling. At the risk of sounding frivolous, one really wants to say, 'Drop everything and read this.'" - Thomas Howard Read more... Purity: Youth Restored - Anthony EsolenModern man is like the character Marcus in the book Quo Vadis. He no longer knows what his body is for. Read more... Questions they never asked me so I asked myself - Walker PercyQ: What kind of Catholic are you? Read more... R.H. Benson: Unsung Genius - Joseph PearceRobert Hugh Benson was lauded in his own day as one of the leading figures in English literature, yet today he is almost completely forgotten outside Catholic circles and is sadly neglected even among Catholics. Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Fri Feb 10 2012 - 01:37:12
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