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Home: Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Forward to Books that Build Character - Robert ColesI recall the first child I had to “transfuse,” a verb I kept hearing all the time — a nine-year-old girl with leukemia who had more than an inkling that she’d never celebrate another birthday…. The girl died a month or so later, but during those few weeks her parents and she read and read, and did a lot of talking about what life means, and the manner in which one ought to live it — an impressive kind of moral scrutiny on their part, under great duress. We are lucky indeed to have such stories as a great heritage, a moral reservoir of sorts, from which we may all constantly draw. Read more... From History to Modernity - Michael S. RoseThe overwrought ornamentation and pompous theatricality of the Rococo churches encouraged the Neo-Classical movement of the late-18th and 19th centuries. Read more... G.K. Chesterton: Champion of Orthodoxy - Joseph PearceChesterton’s reputation as one of the key figures in Christian literature during the 20th century is linked inextricably with the concept of “orthodoxy.” His book of that title, published in 1908, was, according to Wilfrid Ward, a major milestone in the development of Christian thought. Wilfrid Ward was certainly not alone in his flattering praise of Chesterton’s book. Read more... Gatsby's Epitaph: F. Scott Fitzgerald - NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTERThe best Catholic novels seem to be written by those who know, no matter how far they've fallen in faith and morals, that the truth is there. Read more... George MacDonald (1823-1905) - Léonie CaldecottC.S. Lewis regarded the Scottish Congregational minister, George MacDonald, as his “master”, and especially a master of the mythopoeic art, of the kind of writing that “gets under our skin, hits us at a level deeper than our thoughts or even our passions, troubles oldest certainties till all questions are reopened, and in general shocks us more fully awake than we are for most of our lives.” MacDonald, says Lewis, converted, even baptized, his Romantic imagination, and prepared him for conversion to Christianity. Read more... Germanus of Constantinople - Defender of Holy Images - Pope Benedict XVIDuring his general audience this morning Benedict XVI dedicated his catechesis to St. Germanus of Constantinople, who "played an important role in the complex history of the battle for images during the so-called iconoclastic crisis, and was able to resist the pressure of an iconoclastic emperor, ... Leo III. Read more... God Killing Kiddie Flick Disappoints - Pete Vere & Sandra MieselPhillip Pullman has been much more circumspect about his atheism now that the movie, The Golden Compass is out, telling interviewers that he's only writing against "authoritarianism" in religion. But in a just-released book on Pullman's trilogy, Pete Vere and Sandra Meisel reveal him for what he is, the Pied Piper of Atheism. Read more... God’s Secret Agent: Interview with Sue Thomas - Barbara NicolosiAt the age of eighteen months, Sue Thomas was watching television with her family when she suddenly went deaf. After years of extensive therapy, she learned to speak and mastered the skill of lip-reading. Through a series of providential events, Sue ended up working at FBI headquarters in Washington, DC where she became involved in undercover surveillance using her ability to read lips. Read more... Grace Versus the Glamour of Evil in “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” - Stephen SparrowDuring an interview granted to Jubilee Magazine, Flannery O'Connor was reminded of something she had once written to the effect that the creative action of the Christian's life is to prepare his death in Christ. The interviewer then asked how this related to her work as a writer? O'Connor replied, "I'm a born Catholic and death has always been brother to my imagination. I can't imagine a story that doesn't properly end in it or in its foreshadowings." Read more... Graham Greene: Doubter Par Excellence - Joseph PearceIt was both apt and prophetic that Greene should have taken the name of St. Thomas the Doubter at his reception into the Church in February 1926. He doubted others; he doubted himself; he doubted God. Ironically, it was this very doubt that so often provided the creative force for his fiction. Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 20-Nov-2009 - 09:48:49
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