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Home: Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Oh, the Civility! - Robert J. HughesWhat's My Line? — a Sunday night fixture on CBS from 1950 to 1967 — is a bracing antidote to today's dispiriting talk-a-thons, humiliating reality shows and hostile cable-news programs. Read more... Old Faithful - Lionel ShriverAmericans disapprove of marital infidelity — in the movies, at least. Read more... On Being a Catholic Writer - RALPH MCINERNYBeing a Catholic writer has nothing to do with whether there are nuns or priests in the story, whether there is an explicit reference to Catholic things. Read more... On Fairy Tales and the Moral Imagination - Vigen GuroianThe moral education of children must engage the heart as well as the mind. These troubling times excite concern for the safety and protection of our children — but merely securing their physical well-being does not address the root of their peril. The moral imaginations of our children have been neglected and are being crippled. Read more... On Romance - Mark SheaI've been watching old Jimmy Stewart movies again, which always has a strong effect on me. Read more... Open Season on Beauty - Frederica Mathewes-Green“I didn’t like the part in the restaurant,” Hannah, my 6-year-old granddaughter, said. We were leaving a screening of Sony’s new animated feature, Open Season, and I was trying to remember any scene in a restaurant. Read more... Oscar Wilde, Roman Catholic - Jeffery A. TuckerOscar Wilde (1854-1900), has been gaining in popularity though his personal lifestyle, rather than his artistic achievements, still remains the main focus of public attention. Wilde’s flamboyance and eccentricity raise even more questions when contrasted to his lifelong fascination and struggle with Catholicism, and to its influence on his work. Read more... Out of the East: The Architecture of Byzantium - Michael S. RoseConstantine's new capital, built on the remains of the ancient Greek city-state called Byzantium, is important to understanding Byzantine architecture. Read more... Outback Benedictines adopt cultural business methods - Samson Spanier“Your drawing is much better than ours.”: So said Hugo Chapman of the British Museum when confronted with a tempera study of a head from Raphael’s workshop. This head of an apostle is notable not only for its quality but also for its ownership: the community of Benedictine monks of New Norcia, western Australia. Read more... Peddling pagan temptations - Father Raymond J. de SouzaA confessor of mine once delivered himself of this sage aphorism: If there is not enough time to read the good books, there cannot be any time to waste reading the bad ones. I doubt he has read The Da Vinci Code. Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 19-Aug-2008 - 00:05:34
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