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Home: Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Different beliefs not to be feared - WASHINGTON TIMESSpeaking of the hallowed right to free speech, neither the museum, nor the "arts community," nor the judge who first ruled against Mr. Giuliani has ever explained exactly what that shellacked lump of dung affixed to the breast of the Virgin Mary had to do with what the museum hailed as "the free exchange of ideas and information." Email This Article Don Justo's Self Built Cathedral - Citynoise.orgJusto Gallego Martínez is building his very own Cathedral in Mejorada del Campo near Madrid, Spain. Email This Article Dorothy Sayers - Carl OlsonIn an age of skepticism, cynicism, and false “freedoms,” Dorothy Sayers (1893-1957) was a passionate and occasionally scathing voice of reason. Like her friends C.S. Lewis, T.S. Eliot, and Charles Williams, Sayers was a brilliant Christian thinker, an Anglo-Catholic who took doctrine seriously and bristled at the growth of “fads, schisms, heresies, and anti-Christ” within the Church of England. Email This Article Dumbledore has been diminished - Barbara KayHarry Potter series author J.K. Rowling has caused a sensation by revealing that the beloved headmaster of Hogwarts and Harry Potter’s mentor, protector and sometimes surrogate father, Albus Dumbledore, is gay. Email This Article Ecstasy and Solitude - Stephen HoughAs a teenager, Liszt possessed a desire to enter the priesthood. In fact, in each "of the phases of Liszt's life, a definite pattern of withdrawal, search "for God, and reflection upon personal vocation can be seen. Email This Article Edith Sitwell: Modernity and Tradition - Joseph PearceEdith Sitwell was a shock-trooper of the poetic avant garde, a champion of modernity who revelled in the use of shock tactics to push the boundaries of poetry, angering traditionalists in the process. Perhaps, therefore, she would seem an unlikely convert to the creed and traditions of the Catholic Church. Yet, like her friend, “the ultra-modern novelist” Evelyn Waugh, she would come to realize that the liberating power of orthodoxy could transfuse tradition with the dynamism of truth. Email This Article Endo's Borrowed Faith - JOAN FRAWLEY DESMONDThe tension between art and faith in the work of a novelist who happens to be a Catholic is nothing new. Email This Article Evelyn Waugh: Ultramodern to Ultramontane - Joseph PearceEvelyn Waugh’s conversion to the Catholic faith in 1930 was greeted with astonishment by the literary world and caused a sensation in the media. It seemed incomprehensible that an author notorious for his “almost passionate adherence to the ultramodern” could have joined the Catholic Church. Part of the reason for the extensive interest in Waugh’s conversion, was the growing awareness that his reception into the Church was only the latest of a long and lengthening list of literary converts to the Catholic faith. Email This Article Ever Ancient, Ever New: The Catholic Writer in the Modern World - GREGORY WOLFEIt is not possible within the scope of this presentation to give an historical account of the origins of the Catholic Intellectual Renaissance and its influence on modern thought. Email This Article Example and Empathy - William Kilpatrick, Gregory Wolfe, and Suzanne M. WolfeHow do stories help to encourage character? Email This Article Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 15-Jul-2008 - 10:42:04
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