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Home: Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGEArticles:A Great Moment In the Life of an Artist - Peggy NoonanTalking with James Caviezel after his meeting with the pope. Read more... A Lot of Sound, No Music - Anthony EsolenRecently my family and I watched The Sound of Music for perhaps the twelfth time -- probably the last great musical that Hollywood ever produced. It made me wonder if I could list the reasons why such a movie could not now be made. Read more... A man and his Dictionary - Seth LererA new book traces the origins of English — from the Anglo-Saxons to Eminem. In the excerpt below, author Seth Lerer explains how Samuel Johnson’s watershed 1755 Dictionary changed English forever. Read more... A Melancholy Man of Letters - George Sim JohnstonSamuel Johnson, the 18th-century writer and lexicographer, was not only a great man but the subject of the greatest of all biographies. Read more... A note on humanism - David WarrenOne of the most aggravating abuses of the English language is the use of the word "humanist" to mean "godless." Read more... A Passion of Violence and Love - ZenitOn the set much more happened than what is known; much will remain in the secret of consciences: conversions, apparitions of mysterious personages, extraordinary explosions of energy, enigmatic figures who knelt down as the extraordinary Caviezel-Jesus passed by, even two flashes of lightning, one of which struck the cross, but did not hurt anyone. Read more... A Piece of Chalk - G.K. ChestertonI remember one splendid morning, all blue and silver, in the summer holidays when I reluctantly tore myself away from the task of doing nothing in particular, and put on a hat of some sort and picked up a walking-stick, and put six very bright-coloured chalks in my pocket. Read more... A Piero Without Peer - Karen Wilkin'The Legend of the True Cross' is visible in Arezzo again. Read more... A Religion for Heroes: Gods and Generals - Chuck ColsonIt's easy to take shots at major Hollywood studios. So much of what they produce is trash. But sometimes even major studios come up with something great. Read more... A Return to Grace - Catesby LeighAs a designer, lecturer and founding editor of the journal Sacred Architecture, Duncan Stroik has labored long and hard to reconnect Catholic artistic patronage with its ancient heritage. Read more... A Rose Among Thorns - Albert Louis ZamboneIn A Cry of Stone, the fifth novel in the series Children of the Last Days, Michael O'Brien has done his best work yet. This is a remarkable book. Read more... A Salute to Jacques Maritain - MICHAEL NOVAKAs in the nineteenth century so in the twentieth, a number of laymen and women have appeared in the firmament of intellect and the arts to place the entire body of Christians in their debt. Read more... A Secular Apocalypse: A review of the movie 2012 - Father Robert BarronA wise professor of mine, Msgr. Robert Sokolowski, once commented that, with the rise of Protestantism and modernity, an integrated Catholicism blew up and its twisted pieces now litter the contemporary intellectual landscape. Read more... A symbol of decline - Barbara KayLondon’s Trafalgar Square is dominated by a monument, set on a 156-foot column, of Britain’s greatest naval hero, Horatio, Lord Nelson. Read more... A Village Called Wakefield: When Western Culture was Catholic - Anthony EsolenIn 1215, to celebrate the resolution of a controversy regarding Christ's real presence in the Eucharist, Pope Innocent III declared a new holiday: Corpus Christi. What happened then should astonish us. Read more... A Vision of Painting - Donna SuprenantTo create a work of art is about discipline and struggle, tussling with limitations and inner visions that defy execution. As in the spiritual life, to embark on such a journey is to enter a battle. Read more... About Last Night - HELEN ALVAREIn shedding its powerful light on the relationship between our sexual selves and the rest of our lives, Sigrid Undset's great novel Kristin Lavransdatter reveals the nature of virtue and inspires us to want to live more virtuous lives. Read more... Abstract Language vs. the Incarnate Word - Joyce LittleI think it only fair to give an example of a sentence that is truly Catholic. And I am going to turn to a real expert on the subject, Walker Percy. He was a Catholic who knew what the Catholic faith is. He was a novelist who knew what words are all about. Read more... Adorably "WALL-E" - Frederica Mathewes-GreenPixar's latest creation may not be a favorite for the younger generation, but may attract an older audience. Read more... Against All Evidence - Julia ThompsonHenry Poole is Here, directed by Mark Pellington, is a down-to-earth, quirky little movie that deals with the momentous, controversial subject of miracles. Read more... Against Eternal Youth - Frederica Mathewes-GreenI’m a fan of old movies, the black-and-whites from the 1930s and 1940s, in part because of what they reveal about how American culture has changed. The adults in these films carry themselves differently. Read more... American Literature: Our Own Neglected Canon - Elizabeth KantorOne notable thing about American literature is that, for such a big country, we’ve specialized in small literature. Read more... An Emotional Stimulus to Piety - Michael S. RoseBy the time St. Peter's Basilica was completed — during the reign of Pope Clement VIII (1592-1605) — the Catholic Counter-Reformation had inspired a new architectural expression which, while grounded in the Classicism of the Renaissance, was rightly understood as revolutionary in many respects. Read more... An Hour and a Lifetime with C.S. Lewis - Thomas HowardCarl E. Olson recently interviewed Thomas Howard about his friend C. S. Lewis and the approaching release of the cinematic adaptation of Lewis’s famed Chronicles of Narnia. Read more... An Idiot's Guide to Square Notes - Arlene Oost-Zinner and Jeffrey TuckerYou can't get too far into Catholic sacred music without running into "neumes," those little square notes on four lines that look beautiful if oddly antiquated. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Fri Feb 10 2012 - 01:37:11
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