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Home: Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGEArticles:St. Augustine and His Mother - St. AugustineAs the day now approached on which she was to depart this life (which day Thou knewst, we did not), it fell out - Thou, as I believe, by Thy secret ways arranging it — that she and I stood alone, leaning in a certain window, from which the garden of the house we occupied at Ostia could be seen; at which place, removed from the crowd, we were resting ourselves for the voyage, after the fatigues of a long journey. Read more... St. Odd?: The Catholics Who Love Dean Koontz - Tim DrakeAlthough he’s a multi-million, best-selling author, he doesn’t do book tours, skips flying, avoids writers’ conferences and rarely gives interviews. In some ways he mirrors Odd Thomas. He’s humble, self-deprecating, has confronted evil and lived to tell the tale and has an eye for the supernatural. Read more... St. Peter's, Warts and All - Elizabeth LevSadly, many people who don't know the name of the present Pope turn out to be quite well versed in the more scandalous papacies of centuries past. Yet that same mentality that takes a gossip magazine as seriously as a history text, never fails to be taken aback by the number of people thronging St. Peter's Square today, traveling thousands of miles to see the Successor of St. Peter. Read more... Star Wars Culture - Terry MattinglyWhile tweaking the original Star Wars movie for re-release, director George Lucas decided that he needed to clarify the status of pilot Han Solo's soul. Read more... Suggested Reading - Children's Literature - Michael D. O'BrienThe books listed here will help make clear what it is that good literature is meant to do and why what so often passes for literature these days fails to live up to that high calling. Read more... Summer Sleepers - John PrizerCommitted Christians should take a step back before going with the flow of summer movies. Even though this pop-culture carnival is designed primarily to entertain, the values propagated by many of its products can be toxic. If you’re willing to look beyond the Hollywood hype machine, you can find smaller, lower-budget films that are equally involving but don’t depend on celebrity superstars, state-of-the-art special effects or the exploitation of sex and violence to hold your attention. Read more... Tampon in a teacup - Stefan BeckAnyone seeking a little comic relief in the wake of Yale University’s alternately sickening and embarrassing "abortion as art" scandal need look no further than Terry Zwigoff’s 2006 comedy Art School Confidential. Read more... Ten perfect poems and one little brown man - Paul JohnsonIt is said that when the British public is asked, ‘What is your favourite poem?’, the one chosen by most people is Kipling’s ‘If’. Read more... The "Extra" Synod Father: Raphael - Anthony VerdonThe reproduction of his "Disputation on the Sacrament" by Raphael has been placed in the hall of the synod on the Eucharist. Timothy Verdon, whom Benedict XVI has called to Rome as an expert consultant, explains why. Read more... The (Mis)Guided Dream of Graham Greene - Robert RoyalGraham Greene was a Catholic novelist of considerable spiritual insight whose own unfortunate life-style ultimately weakened his art. Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 19-Aug-2008 - 00:05:34
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