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Home: Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Five Best Books on Religion and Politics - Mary Ann GlendonThese literary works excel in their depiction of religion and politics. Read more... Flannery 0'Connor Banned - J. BottumThis summer, the racist texts of Flannery O'Connor were banned from the Catholic schools in Lafayette, Louisiana. You hardly know where to begin when faced with a proposition like that. T Read more... Flannery O'Connor: Stalking Pride - AMY WELBORNFlannery O'Connor wrote out of a deep, thoroughly Catholic vision of life, and saw her vocation of writing as essentially telling stories to uncover "mystery through manners, grace through nature." Read more... Forward to Books that Build Character - Robert ColesI recall the first child I had to “transfuse,” a verb I kept hearing all the time — a nine-year-old girl with leukemia who had more than an inkling that she’d never celebrate another birthday…. The girl died a month or so later, but during those few weeks her parents and she read and read, and did a lot of talking about what life means, and the manner in which one ought to live it — an impressive kind of moral scrutiny on their part, under great duress. We are lucky indeed to have such stories as a great heritage, a moral reservoir of sorts, from which we may all constantly draw. Read more... Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden - Mitchell KalpakgianSomething magical occurs when a child who remains indoors goes outside to play. Read more... From History to Modernity - Michael S. RoseThe overwrought ornamentation and pompous theatricality of the Rococo churches encouraged the Neo-Classical movement of the late-18th and 19th centuries. Read more... G. K. Chesterton: master of rejuvenation - Roger KimballIn life, there was always something unwieldy about Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Mentally as well as physically, he was a man who tended to . . . overflow. Read more... G.K. Chesterton and Malcolm Muggeridge: A balance of opposites - Karl SchmudeCuriously, if I can risk a paradox so early in discussing Chesterton and Muggeridge – for both of them had a love of paradox – it is in the similarities between these two men that we find the differences. Read more... G.K. Chesterton: Champion of Orthodoxy - Joseph PearceChesterton's reputation as one of the key figures in Christian literature during the 20th century is linked inextricably with the concept of "orthodoxy." Read more... Gatsby's Epitaph: F. Scott Fitzgerald - NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTERThe best Catholic novels seem to be written by those who know, no matter how far they've fallen in faith and morals, that the truth is there. Read more... George MacDonald (1823-1905) - Léonie CaldecottC.S. Lewis regarded the Scottish Congregational minister, George MacDonald, as his “master”, and especially a master of the mythopoeic art, of the kind of writing that “gets under our skin, hits us at a level deeper than our thoughts or even our passions, troubles oldest certainties till all questions are reopened, and in general shocks us more fully awake than we are for most of our lives.” MacDonald, says Lewis, converted, even baptized, his Romantic imagination, and prepared him for conversion to Christianity. Read more... Germanus of Constantinople - Defender of Holy Images - Pope Benedict XVIDuring his general audience this morning Benedict XVI dedicated his catechesis to St. Germanus of Constantinople, who "played an important role in the complex history of the battle for images during the so-called iconoclastic crisis, and was able to resist the pressure of an iconoclastic emperor, ... Leo III. Read more... Giovanni Bellini: A Shared Moment of Transformation - Lance EsplundIn 1912, Mrs. Bernard Berenson, the wife of the famed Renaissance art scholar, described Giovanni Bellini's "St. Francis in the Desert" (c. 1480) as "the most beautiful Bellini in existence, the most profound and spiritual picture ever painted in the Renaissance." Read more... Glory and Splendor - part 3: The Beauty of Language - Peter KreeftWell, we've been talking about beauty. Let's talk more about the beauty of language, and thus talk a little more about language. Read more... God Killing Kiddie Flick Disappoints - Pete Vere & Sandra MieselPhillip Pullman has been much more circumspect about his atheism now that the movie, The Golden Compass is out, telling interviewers that he's only writing against "authoritarianism" in religion. But in a just-released book on Pullman's trilogy, Pete Vere and Sandra Meisel reveal him for what he is, the Pied Piper of Atheism. Read more... God’s Secret Agent: Interview with Sue Thomas - Barbara NicolosiAt the age of eighteen months, Sue Thomas was watching television with her family when she suddenly went deaf. After years of extensive therapy, she learned to speak and mastered the skill of lip-reading. Through a series of providential events, Sue ended up working at FBI headquarters in Washington, DC where she became involved in undercover surveillance using her ability to read lips. Read more... Grace Versus the Glamour of Evil in “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” - Stephen SparrowDuring an interview granted to Jubilee Magazine, Flannery O'Connor was reminded of something she had once written to the effect that the creative action of the Christian's life is to prepare his death in Christ. The interviewer then asked how this related to her work as a writer? O'Connor replied, "I'm a born Catholic and death has always been brother to my imagination. I can't imagine a story that doesn't properly end in it or in its foreshadowings." Read more... Graham Greene: Doubter Par Excellence - Joseph PearceIt was both apt and prophetic that Greene should have taken the name of St. Thomas the Doubter at his reception into the Church in February 1926. He doubted others; he doubted himself; he doubted God. Ironically, it was this very doubt that so often provided the creative force for his fiction. Read more... Grappling with God: The faith of a famous poet - Wilfred M. McClayW. H. Auden regarded Christianity as possessing a marvelous power to change human lives. Inexplicably, however, critics have largely neglected the effects of Auden's mature commitment to Christianity. Arthur Kirsch, in Auden and Christianity remedies that neglect with this much-needed study of how Auden's religious beliefs shaped his artistic vision. Read more... Greene's True Colours - Franklin FreemanIn 1949, Graham Greene, after an audience with Pope Pius XII, visited a Franciscan monastery with his mistress, Catherine Walston, where he heard Padre Pio say Mass. Read more... Gregorian Chant Is Returning from Exile. Maybe - Valentino Miserachs GrauValentino Miserachs Grau, president of the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music, is calling for its revival. Pope Benedict XVI wants it, too. But the path is full of obstacles. Read more... Grim Tales - Kari Jenson GoldThe nursery school my daughter attends is full of bright, lively, privileged children. And yet, if you were to visit the children's bedrooms to explore their libraries, you might be surprised at what you find there: limited and unimaginative collections often dominated by Walt Disney, Berenstain Bears, and Sesame Street. Read more... Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales - Mitchell KalpakgianTo read Andersen’s fairy tales is to rediscover the adventure of the human story, to experience the sweet taste of goodness, and to marvel at the miraculous nature of reality. Read more... Hard Times Again - Theodore DalrympleUnder the impact of today's economic crisis Charles Dickens seems timelier than ever. Read more... Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Mitchell KalpakgianStowe's great American novel, a bestseller in 1852, exposes the dehumanizing evil of slavery for the vicious crime and sin it is — the evil of reducing human beings to animals and objects. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Mon May 13 2013 - 20:15:25
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