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Home: Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Mary Magdalene - Dan DoyleMaster and Commander: The Far Side of the World - Steven D. GreydanusLike a cannon blast across the bows, Peter Weir’s Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a thunderous, almost defiant declaration heralding the arrival of a force to be reckoned with. Read more... Maurice Baring: Faith and Culture - Joseph PearceWhen Sir James Gunn exhibited his famous painting, “The Conversation Piece,” depicting G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, and Maurice Baring assembled round a table, Chesterton, with characteristic humor, labeled the three figures, “Baring, over-bearing, and past-bearing.” Read more... Mendelssohn: Great-Or Also Ran? - ROBERT R. REILLYPoor Mendelssohn was rich. Had he only suffered more, he might have been a profound composer. Read more... Miracles in Soho - George WeigelSoho, in the West End of the British capital, has had a rather dodgy history. Read more... Morality in Hollywood: An Interview with Author Nicholas Sparks - Stan WilliamsJuly 9, 2002 marked another milestone in the much wished-for moral transformation of Hollywood. That is the date of the home video release of the popular family-friendly film, A Walk to Remember, based on the novel of the same name by Catholic author, Nicholas Sparks. Read more... More to Rome than Angels & Demons: A true story - Elizabeth LevDespite every attempt to stir controversy and fan fires of moral outrage, Ron Howard’s film adaptation of Dan Brown’s novel Angels and Demons enjoyed a peaceful world premiere May 4. Read more... Movie Review: The Return of the King - Steven D. GreydanusIt’s hard to overstate the soaring achievement of Peter Jackson and company in The Return of the King, the third and final chapter of their historic adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. Read more... 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 Mozart Reconstructed - Robert ReillyThe question as to why he died so young is always superseded by: How could he have existed at all?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... My Beef with Holden Caulfield: On the 60th Anniversary of The Catcher in the Rye - Father Damian J. FerenceI went to Catholic high school, and because I really didn't begin to read for pleasure until my sophomore year of college, I was late in coming to meet J.D. Salinger's character, Holden Caulfield. Read more... Neutral Fictions - JOSH GILDERPublic education in America is supposed to mean a morally neutral education, yet in literature class... Read more... New book adds to Fr. Hardon's beloved legacy - Dominic AquilaOne of the most alarming statistics reported recently in the Catholic Press was that approximately 70 percent of Catholics do not believe or do not know that by the action of the priest during Mass Jesus Christ becomes fully present in the Holy Eucharist. With Us Today argues that this widespread disbelief and misunderstanding is the outgrowth of misleading doctrines that have been circulating among certain theologians for a good part of the twentieth century. Read more... New college to combine arts with spirituality - Carolyn GirardLiving Water College brands itself as the only school of its kind in North America, offering an education combining faith, reason and the arts. Read more... Not Quite Narnia: The Harry Potter books in review - JASON BOFFETTIWith five million copies in hardcover and three million in paperback, the Harry Potter series is a dramatic success. But not everyone is wild about Harry. Read more... Novelist Is a Rare Catholic Voice in Literature - NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTERTo those who think the first and last words in Catholic American literature are Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy,"comes a worthy successor in, contemporary novelist Ron Hansen. Read more... Novels that Keep Satan at Bay - PAUL EVANSOriginally the province of the French visionaries Mauriac and Bernanos, the Catholic novel has found exponents as various as are the many roads to Rome. Read more... 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