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Home: Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGEArticles: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... 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 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 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... Pages: [<<] ... 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 19-Dec-2008 - 11:42:21
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