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Home: Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Velázquez: the high, the devastating price of snobbery - Paul JohnsonThe Velázquez show at the National Gallery has reminded me that art history is not only about what was, and what is, but what might have been. Read more... Videos Capture the Places Where Jesus Walked - ZenitSteve Ray isn't just a tourist when he travels to the Holy Land and elsewhere in the Mideast. Read more... Vigilance, Paranoia, and Uncle Walt - Michael D. O'BrienMichael O'Brien reviews all the major Disney films in terms of the moral lessons they teach our children. While some of the early films are quite good, more recent Disney remakes of the timeless classics tend to trivialize the characters and strip the tales of their original moral content. Read more... Virtuous and Vicious Drinking - Roger ScrutonCurrent concerns over "binge drinking" — by which is meant the habit of drinking large quantities of alcohol with the intention of getting drunk without the benefit of improving conversation — have brought into focus the great difference between virtuous and vicious drinking. Read more... Vision and Virtue - William KilpatrickMost cultures have recognized that morality, religion, story, and myth are bound together in some vital way, and that to sever the connections among them leaves us not with strong and independent ethical principles but with weak and unprotected ones. Read more... Visiting cathedrals? Here are England’s top ten - Paul JohnsonRecently a friend from abroad, anxious to enrich himself from our past, asked me about the cathedrals. Which must he visit, which should he visit if he had time? Read more... Von Balthasar, Mozart and the Quest of Beauty - MARK FREERVon Balthasar's was no purely theoretical preoccupation with beauty. The award in 1987 of the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Prize in Innsbruck was the rounding off of a life whose secret passion had been music. Read more... Vox Clamantis in Deserto (A Voice Cries Out in the Desert) - Dan DoyleWalker Percy: Diagnostician of the Modern Malaise - Carl E. OlsonI was first introduced to the writing of Walker Percy (1916-1990) several years ago and have been hooked ever since. The Moviegoer was the first book by Percy I read. It was also his first novel, the winner of the National Book Award in 1961. Read more... Walker Percy: Seer of the ‘Self’ - Stephen SparrowThe December 1977 issue of Esquire Magazine carried an insightful self-interview with American novelist Walker Percy entitled "Questions They Never Asked Me" and it commenced with a rundown on his not inconsiderable list of personal aversions. Read more... Wanted: Good Men - Janet SmithMy dad died two years ago at the age of 88. He was, in many ways, a man typical of his generation. He was manly, responsible, dutiful and faithful. Read more... Waugh Revisited - JAMES HITCHCOCKPerhaps rather than a Catholic novel Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited should be called a sacramental novel in a particular sense. Read more... We are not alone - Michael CorenWe read to know we are not alone. Which is something that Lewis, the great historians, Chesterton and a number of other great writers have been trying to tell us at different stages of our lives. Read more... Wendell Berry's Community - ANNE HUSTED BURLEIGHWendell Berry, novelist, essayist, poet, and farmer, is a central contributor to the growing renaissance of Christian culture. Read more... What did Jesus sing? - Geoffrey ClarfieldFor 2,000 years, we didn’t know the answer. But now, musicology and ethnomusicology have given us some clues Read more... What I would do if I were a multibillionaire - Paul JohnsonThere is nothing sinful in amassing wealth, provided it is done justly. Read more... What Makes Doctor Johnson Great? - Theodore DalrympleA friend of mine, Russian by birth but English by adoption, who speaks English more elegantly and eloquently than most native speakers, once asked me of what, precisely, the greatness of Doctor Johnson consisted. Read more... What Makes Norman Rockwell Possible? - Anthony EsolenI must confess to an intellectual sin. I delight in the paintings of Norman Rockwell. Read more... What Use Is Literature? - Myron MagnetAristotle perhaps didn’t go far enough when he said that tragedy was more philosophic than history, concentrating as it does on what might be rather than merely on what had been. Read more... Whatever Happened to Palestrina? - Rev. Lawrence B. PorterThough all the great European composers before the modern age worked at one time or another for the Catholic Church, it is arguable that Palestrina’s music, more than any other composer's, captures the sense of mystery and adoration characteristic of Catholic worship. Read more... When words come to life and evoke sounds, smells and images - Paul JohnsonCharles Lamb, writing to Joseph Hume at Christmas 1807 on the subject of ‘a certain turkey and a contingent plumb-pudding’, added, ‘I always spell plumb-pudding with a b, I think it reads fatter and more suetty’. Read more... Where religious freedom rings - George WeigelNew York's St. Patrick's Cathedral might be the most famous Catholic church in America, but Baltimore's old cathedral — the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, to use its proper name — is indisputably the most historic. Read more... Who is my Neighbour? - Charles ColsonMany Hollywood films are frankly unfit for human consumption. But there are exceptions — films that treat important subjects and ideas in a way that a thinking Christian can affirm. Such a film opens tomorrow. Read more... Why do Heathens Make the Best Christian Films? - Thom ParhamMost films that successfully incorporate Christian themes are made by non-Christians. Thom Parham explains why in this essay from, Behind the Screen: Hollywood Insiders on Faith, Film, and Culture. Read more... Why Harry Potter Goes Awry - ZenitReasonable Christian parents would not permit their children to read a series of enthralling books depicting likable young people involved in drug-dealing, or premarital sex, or torture. We would not give our children fiction in which a group of "good fornicators" struggled against a set of "bad fornicators." Why, then, have we accepted a set of books which glamorize and normalize occult activity, even though it is every bit as deadly to the soul as sexual sin, if not more so? 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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