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Home: Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Movie Review: We Were Soldiers - Barbara Nicolosi"We Were Soldiers" goes much farther than "Braveheart" in telling the story of a man of faith who lived a martyr’s life in the name of duty and honor. In terms of cultural impact, this character is very cool, very smart, with integrity to burn, and very Catholic. We haven’t seen the best we can be like this up on the screen since "A Man for All Seasons". Read more... Mozart Reconstructed - Robert ReillyThe question as to why he died so young is always superseded by: How could he have existed at all? How could you ask more of a miracle? Read more... Mr. Giuliani knows what he doesn't like - ROGER KIMBALLWe suffer today from a peculiar form of moral anaesthesia based on the delusion that by calling something "art" we thereby purchase for it a blanket exemption from moral criticism... Read more... Mulling over Nothing - Thomas S. HibbsProfessor of philosophy, Thomas Hibbs brings his expertise in Medieval thought and contemporary ethics to bear on questions of popular culture. Read more... Music and Liturgy - Pope Benedict XVIThe importance of music in biblical religion is shown very simply by the fact that the verb "to sing" (with related words such as "song", and so forth) is one of the most commonly used words in the Bible. It occurs 309 times in the Old Testament and thirty-six in the New. Read more... Music and Morality - William KilpatrickMusic can play a positive role in moral development by creating sensual attractions to goodness, or it can play a destructive role by setting children on a temperamental path that leads away from virtue. Read more... Music and Morality - Roger Scruton“The ways of poetry and music are not changed anywhere without change in the most important laws of the city.” So wrote Plato in the Republic (4.424c). Music, for Plato, was not a neutral amusement. It could express and encourage virtue—nobility, dignity, temperance, chastity. But it could also express and encourage vice—sensuality, belligerence, indiscipline. Read more... Music as a Christian Art - Frederick StockenTo say that music is the most Christian of the arts may seem a contentious statement. Yet what is often forgotten is that all the other art forms were highly developed before the Christian age. Music was the only exception. Read more... Music for the End of Time - Michael R. LintonAlthough not raised by particularly religious parents, Olivier Messiaen described himself as having been "born a believer," and remarked that the most important function of his music was "[to shed] light on the theological truths of the Catholic faith." Read more... Music from the spheres - Father George W. RutlerAmong the theories once dismissed as "old wives' tales," was the advice that pregnant women should surround themselves with music. Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 26-Feb-2011 - 11:00:15
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