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Home: Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGEArticles:The Language of Beauty - part 5: The Power of Names - Peter KreeftIf things come to us in their names, then the power of things comes to us in the power of their names. Read more... The Lion King - John J. MillerThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is both a fantastic adventure story and a profound expression of Christian belief. Read more... The Long Conversion of Oscar Wilde - Andrew McCrackenOscar Wilde is widely celebrated as an artist persecuted for his homosexuality, a sort of protomartyr for the cause of gay rights. The current celebration of Wilde as gay martyr is certainly one legitimate interpretation of his life, but it oversimplifies his complexity; indeed, it ignores the major movement of his life, a life that may also be seen as a long and difficult conversion to the Roman Catholic Church. Read more... The Making of The Exorcism of Emily Rose - Terry MattinglyThere are no scenes of spinning heads, projectile pea-soup vomiting, or levitating beds in The Exorcism of Emily Rose (opening September 9), starring Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Jennifer Carpenter, and Campbell Scott. Read more... The Meaning of Work: A Found poem - Dan DoyleCourtesy of Wendell Berry’s essay, “The Pleasure of Eating”. Read more... The Medieval Pilgrimage Shrines - Michael RoseThe churches of the Romanesque era were the fruits of a thoroughly Catholic culture. Not only did they serve as places of worship and devotion, but also as centers of the community. Read more... The Missing Madonna - Calvin TomkinsThe story behind the Met’s most expensive acquisition. Read more... The Moral Imagination - Russell KirkThe moral imagination is an enduring source of inspiration that elevates us to first principles as it guides us upwards towards virtue and wisdom and redemption. Read more... The moral power of music - Rev. Basil Nortz, O.R.C.Some Greek thinkers and past civilizations in general have held that good music disposes man to virtue whereas bad music disposes man to vice. Read more... The Mortal Foe of My Children: Where Is It All leading? - Michael D. O'BrienAbout forty years ago there began a culture-shift that steadily gathered momentum, a massive influx of children's literature that appeared good on the surface but was fundamentally disordered became the new majority. Read more... The Mystery of the Passion of Charles Peguy - Robert RoyalWhen a true genius is born, nothing in the family or its circumstances allows us to predict the new arrival. Read more... The Nativity Story - Frederica Mathewes-GreenThe curiosity of the Christmas season has got to be The Nativity Story, a film which presents the story of the Virgin Mary, her betrothal to Joseph, and the birth of Jesus Christ with an utterly straight face. If you thought Hollywood was incapable of approaching Christians without a cattle prod, you’ll be shocked at how circumspect this movie is. Read more... The New Gnostic Gospel - Steve KellmeyerHollywood’s dabbling in religion again, and this time, they ain’t ringing The Bells of Saint Mary’s. In the box office hit The Matrix, they’re preaching that old-time religion . . . and we do mean old. The sets and costumes have changed, but the plot, characters and themes are all the same, borrowed from the first century A.D. Gnosticism, that ancient heresy, has come back — to a theater near you! Read more... The New Illiteracy - Michael D. O'BrienThe new visual media is pleasurable, but it is a tyrant. While the reader's imagination can select what it wishes to focus on, in electronic visual media the mind is pummeled with powerful stimuli that bypass conscious and subconscious defenses. Read more... The No-Nonsense Network - Christopher WillcoxRita Antoinette Rizzo could not have imagined her improbable future when, as a little girl with a Buster Brown haircut, she sat on the corner of Liberty and 11th Street in Canton, Ohio, conversing with prostitutes and gangsters. Read more... The Oldest Morality Play - Charles ColsonIt's an opening familiar to millions of Americans. A New York resident is walking down the street, minding his own business — maybe arguing with his spouse or chatting with a friend. Read more... The Only Acceptable Bigotry - NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTERThomas Doherty, a professor of Film Studies at Brandeis University, sees Hollywood's defense of the movie Dogma as another instance of the only acceptable bigotry in American-bigotry against Catholics. Read more... The other side of the wardrobe - Rev. Raymond de SouzaNarnia lies just on the other side of the mysterious wardrobe. The Christian imagination is that the mystical and the supernatural lie just on the other side of the ordinary, the mundane, and the natural. Read more... The profound mysteries of why we enjoy music - Paul JohnsonA number of readers have written to me about the essay I wrote on the failure to develop a satisfactory philosophy of music, asking where they could find further information. Read more... The Rape of the Masters - Roger KimballColleges and universities used to teach art history to encourage connoisseurship and acquaint students with the riches of our artistic heritage. Read more... The Relentless Cult of Novelty - Alexander SolzhenitsynFor several decades now, writes Nobel prize for literature winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, world literature, music, painting and sculpture have exhibited a stubborn tendency to grow not higher but to the side, not toward the highest achievements of craftsmanship and of the human spirit but toward their disintegration into a frantic and insidious "novelty." Read more... The Relevance and Challenge of C. S. Lewis - Mark BrumleyInterest in Lewis is on the upswing, again, especially with the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe movie and portents of many more in a series of Chronicles of Narnia feature films. What, then, to make of this highly influential, Belfast-born Christian thinker and writer, and his impact on modern Christianity? Read more... The Restoration of Christian Storytelling - Michael D. O'BrienThe imagination was originally created to be God's territory, a faculty of man's soul that would help him to comprehend the invisible realities. Though the modern imagination has reverted to the pre-pagan split in consciousness, haunted and malformed by false stories, the territory can be reclaimed. Read more... The Right Story - Charles ColsonEarly in the new film Walk the Line, opening today, a twelve-year-old Johnny Cash is talking with his adored older brother Jack. Johnny asks how Jack is able to remember all the stories in the Bible. Jack, who wants to be a preacher, responds, “You can’t help people unless you can tell ’em the right stories.” Read more... The Sacred Made Real - Mary EberstadtTo the surprise of no one who has seen it, "The Sacred Made Real" has been celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic since its first appearance in London in 2009. Read more... 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