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Home: Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Walker 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 Les Miserables still resonates - Father Raymond J. de SouzaVictor Hugo's 19th-century tale is a retelling of the Christian story of the first century. It tells the world its true story, which is why it endures, and returns again. 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... Why Has the West Become Neopagan? - Michael D. O'BrienEducators are rightly concerned that young people are not learning to enjoy reading. But in an effort to stimulate interest, they are introducing many books"of questionable merit, books which present to the young a neopagan world view. Read more... Why I Go For Walks: A Found Poem - Dan DoyleCourtesy of Wendell Berry's essay, "The Work of Local Culture". Read more... Why Liturgical Bad Habits Must Be Broken - Peter KwasniewskiCatholics have a right to a liturgy that is in accord with the mind of the Church and her tradition. Read more... Why Praise and Worship Music is Praise, But Not Worship - Father Christopher SmithThe first time I ever went to a Life Teen Mass I was sixteen years old. Read more... Why Shakespeare is for all Time - Theodore DalrympleShakespeare reminds us of the line between good and evil running down the center of all human hearts. And in showing us that the line is always there, easily and disastrously crossed, Shakespeare destroys the utopian illusion that social arrangements can be made so perfect that men will no longer have to strive to be good. Read more... Why Tolkien Says "The Lord of the Rings" Is Catholic - Joseph Pearce"The Two Towers", the second part of Peter Jackson's blockbuster film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, was let loose on an expectant nation on Dec. 18, 2002. Over the coming months and years it will be watched by millions of moviegoers throughout the world, most of whom will be unaware that they are watching a film version of what its author called "a fundamentally religious and Catholic work." Read more... William of New York - Rev. George W. RutlerOn Thursday, November 17, National Review celebrated William F. Buckley's 80th birthday at the Pierre in New York City. Among those in attendance, paying WFB tribute, was Rev. George W. Rutler pastor of the Church of Our Saviour in Manhattan. Below are his remarks, as prepared. Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Wed May 22 2013 - 19:29:33
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