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Music and Morality - William Kilpatrick

Music can play a positive role in moral development by creating sensual attractions to goodness, or it can play a destructive role by setting children on a temperamental path that leads away from virtue. Read more...

Music as a Christian Art - Frederick Stocken

To say that music is the most Christian of the arts may seem a contentious statement. Yet what is often forgotten is that all the other art forms were highly developed before the Christian age. Music was the only exception. Read more...

Music for the End of Time - Michael R. Linton

Although not raised by particularly religious parents, Olivier Messiaen described himself as having been "born a believer," and remarked that the most important function of his music was "[to shed] light on the theological truths of the Catholic faith." Read more...

Neutral Fictions - JOSH GILDER

Public education in America is supposed to mean a morally neutral education, yet in literature class... Read more...

New book adds to Fr. Hardon's beloved legacy - Dominic Aquila

One of the most alarming statistics reported recently in the Catholic Press was that approximately 70 percent of Catholics do not believe or do not know that by the action of the priest during Mass Jesus Christ becomes fully present in the Holy Eucharist. With Us Today argues that this widespread disbelief and misunderstanding is the outgrowth of misleading doctrines that have been circulating among certain theologians for a good part of the twentieth century. Read more...

Not Quite Narnia: The Harry Potter books in review - JASON BOFFETTI

With five million copies in hardcover and three million in paperback, the Harry Potter series is a dramatic success. But not everyone is wild about Harry. Read more...

Novelist Is a Rare Catholic Voice in Literature - NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER

To those who think the first and last words in Catholic American literature are Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy,"comes a worthy successor in, contemporary novelist Ron Hansen. Read more...

Novels that Keep Satan at Bay - PAUL EVANS

Originally the province of the French visionaries Mauriac and Bernanos, the Catholic novel has found exponents as various as are the many roads to Rome. Read more...

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 Weeds & Fairy Tales: The Idylls, Idols & Devils That Corrupt the Moral Imagination - Vigen Guroian

I 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...

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