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Home: Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Radiant Dante - Stephen SparrowThe list of serious writers and thinkers who have marvelled over Dante reads like a 'Who's Who' of the literary world and then there are the many others, who have studied Dante and found themselves drawn ever so gently to know Jesus Christ. Not for nothing has The Divine Comedy been called the fifth Gospel, and for those prepared to make the effort, it is both readable and easy to understand. Read more... Raissa Maritain: Philosopher, Poet, Mystic - MICHAEL SHERWIN, O.P.Almost from the moment Jacques Maritain introduced himself to Raissa Oumansov they became inseparable. Read more... Ratatouille - Frederica Mathewes-GreenRatatouille is one more proof that, though not everyone can make an excellent animated feature, the best being made now are definitely coming from Pixar. Read more... Reading Goethe’s Faust From A Catholic Perspective - John WhitonGoethe’s Faust is traditionally seen as a paean to and the epitome of German Idealism. According to this reading, Faust is the archetypal Modern Western Man who, by dint of his ceaseless striving, creates himself and his world by an act of sheer will. But this is not the only interpretation. In view of the lavish use of traditional Catholic themes and imagery which pervade the play, one is led to discover in Faust a more traditional view of man and the purpose of his life. Read more... Reading Sigrid Undset - CYNTHIA GRENIERAs this article describes, Undset's two greatest novels Kristin Lavransdatter and The Master of Hestviken detail the long, often difficult lifelong road of the two protagonists... Read more... Reading the Classics with C.S. Lewis - Lesley RiceAh, the good old days! If only I had been born earlier, when people like C.S. Lewis taught in the universities, when a Christian could be taken seriously as a scholar… Read more... Reasons For Hope From Hollywood - Barbara NicolosiThe founder of Act One, a Christian scriptwriters group in Hollywood, gave an overview of the movie-and-television industry, and the hopes she sees for the Church in its mission of evangelization. Here is an excerpt of an address she gave at the Catholic University of Valencia in mid-May. Read more... Recommended Video Rentals For Summer Viewing - Barbara NicolosiSummertime generally means more time to spend hanging out with family and friends. Here’s a list of recent films now available on video or DVD that parents and kids can enjoy together and perhaps find what Joseph Conrad called “that measure of truth for which they had forgotten to ask.” Read more... Religious Vision and Free Will in Flannery O'Connor's Novel Wise Blood - Stephen SparrowCompared with the early music compositions of child prodigies like Mozart or Camille Saint-Saëns; the novel Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor, was an impressive literary feat. Read more... Richard Strauss: the Bavarian Joker in the Pack - Paul JohnsonRichard Strauss died 60 years ago this year. Not only is he one of my top ten favourite composers, he is also the one I would most like to be cast away with on an island so that I could pluck out the heart of his mystery. Read more... Robert Frost - Rev. George RutlerI have a sharp picture of hurrying in the chill past a man 71 years older than I, with hair like mountains of snow. "You young fellas are always in a rush." He stopped me, and that is how I first met Robert Frost. I got to know that sing-song voice and do not remember him speaking any other way. Read more... Roy Campell: Bombast and Fire - Joseph PearceRoy Campbell was considered by many of his peers, most notably by T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Edith Sitwell, as one of the finest poets of the 20th century. Why then, one wonders, is he not as well-known today as many lesser poets? Read more... Russia's Literary Patriot - George JonasAs a writer, Solzhenitsyn combined the eye of a visual artist with the voice of an Old Testament prophet. Read more... Sacred Art, Scripture and Faith - Edward PentinThe use of art as a bridge to Scripture and faith was one of the more fascinating subjects discussed at the October Synod of Bishops on the Bible. Read more... Saint Batman? - Father Raymond J. de SouzaHeath Ledger is mesmerizing in The Dark Knight, the latest Batman film. Read more... Satan: A Tapeworm - John ZmirakThere's plenty of buzz about the upcoming Anthony Hopkins film The Rite, which tells me that, somewhere, some publicist is going to keep his job. Read more... Seldom Seen on The Silver Screen - John PrizerEven secular scholars agree that the birth of Jesus Christ is one of the defining moments of history. Yet cinematic recreations of the incident are strikingly few and far between. Read more... Sex and Violence — Not all Bad - Rabbi Daniel LapinIt is fashionable to denounce the sex and violence that saturates American entertainment. Instead of condemning the supply perhaps we should examine why people demand this commodity. Read more... Shakespeare Scholars Say the Bard was Catholic? - PAUL BURNELLAn international gathering of scholars this summer examined the theory that playwright and poet William Shakespeare was a secret Catholic. Read more... Shakespeare, the secret rebel - Robert Mason LeeDoes all of Shakespeare's work contain hidden, dissident, pro-Catholic content? Read more... Siegfried Sassoon: A Poet's Pilgrimage - Joseph PearceSiegfried Sassoon is arguably the greatest of the War Poets. The ending of the second of the century’s global conflagrations marked the beginning of Sassoon’s final approach to the Catholic faith. Influenced to a degree by Catholic friends such as Ronald Knox and Hilaire Belloc, but to a far greater degree by the experience of his own life, he was received into the Church in September 1957, shortly after his 71st birthday. After a lifetime of mystical searching he had finally found his way Home. Read more... Sigrid Undset on Saints and Sinners: An Introduction - Deal HudsonAmong Catholic writers there are more familiar names Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Georges Bernanos, Francois Mauriac, Flannery O'Connor - but Sigrid Undset belongs among them. Read more... Sigrid Undset's World - Rev. Joseph Koterski, S.J.What does it take to bring an undaunted religious perspective into the land of high literary culture? In Sigrid Undset (1882-1949) we have a Nobel laureate novelist who was mindful of all the main issues and whose medieval works have been making a comeback. Read more... Sigrid Undset: Catholic Viking - Stephen SparrowCompared to some of the big names of Catholic fiction, e.g. Evelyn Waugh or Graham Greene; Sigrid Undset is almost unknown: which is a perplexing state of affairs given that she wrote some of the greatest fiction of the 20th Century. Read more... Singing Lessons - Robert A. SkerisIt is a fact that liturgical music is an integral part of the liturgy itself, not merely a means to assist or enrich worship. It is worship itself, like color to a sunset, like thought to the mind. Sacred music is not like prayer; it is prayer. Sacred music raises the mind and heart to God, and not only to our neighbor. 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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