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Home: Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Shakespeare, the secret rebel - Robert Mason LeeDoes all of Shakespeare's work contain hidden, dissident, pro-Catholic content? Read more... Siegfried Sassoon: A Poet's Pilgrimage - Joseph PearceSiegfried Sassoon is arguably the greatest of the War Poets. The ending of the second of the century’s global conflagrations marked the beginning of Sassoon’s final approach to the Catholic faith. Influenced to a degree by Catholic friends such as Ronald Knox and Hilaire Belloc, but to a far greater degree by the experience of his own life, he was received into the Church in September 1957, shortly after his 71st birthday. After a lifetime of mystical searching he had finally found his way Home. Read more... Sigrid Undset on Saints and Sinners: An Introduction - Deal HudsonAmong Catholic writers there are more familiar names Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Georges Bernanos, Francois Mauriac, Flannery O'Connor - but Sigrid Undset belongs among them. Read more... Sigrid Undset's World - Rev. Joseph Koterski, S.J.What does it take to bring an undaunted religious perspective into the land of high literary culture? In Sigrid Undset (1882-1949) we have a Nobel laureate novelist who was mindful of all the main issues and whose medieval works have been making a comeback. Read more... Sigrid Undset: Catholic Viking - Stephen SparrowCompared to some of the big names of Catholic fiction, e.g. Evelyn Waugh or Graham Greene; Sigrid Undset is almost unknown: which is a perplexing state of affairs given that she wrote some of the greatest fiction of the 20th Century. Read more... Singing Lessons - Robert A. SkerisIt is a fact that liturgical music is an integral part of the liturgy itself, not merely a means to assist or enrich worship. It is worship itself, like color to a sunset, like thought to the mind. Sacred music is not like prayer; it is prayer. Sacred music raises the mind and heart to God, and not only to our neighbor. Read more... Society at Sea: A Reflection on Civility - Anne MorseI am relaxing on a teak chair on the promenade deck of a luxurious cruise ship, a drink in one hand, a paperback in the other. An elegant new hat is keeping the late afternoon sun out of my eyes. Read more... Some Thoughts on the Harry Potter Series - Michael D. O'BrienThere is currently a strong controversy raging over J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. Because I have six children of my own, all of them avid readers with an interest in fantasy literature, I have followed it closely. Read more... Songs for Hard Times - Terry MattinglyThe powers that be made sure the Country Music Association Awards started with fireworks, red-white-and-blue streamers and star-spangled guitars. But it was Alan Jackson who stopped the show with a post-Sept. 11 anthem that had the faithful drying their eyes. Read more... Spiderman’s Gift - Sean MurphyIn the midst of the scandals that have broken in the United States, Spiderman has a timely message; with authority and power come responsibility. From those to whom much has been given, it is written, much will be expected — and not just by anguished laity, outraged media and determined attorneys general. Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 19-Aug-2008 - 00:05:34
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