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Home: Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Fahrenheit 9/11 - James BowmanAs a skeptic about the war in Iraq — and one with a son quite likely to be sent there — I was most disappointed with the quality of the polemic in Fahrenheit 9/11. Email This Article Faith and Fantasy - Steven GreydanusThe Lord of the Rings film trilogy is an extraordinary cinematic tribute to a great work of Catholic imagination. While not equalling the religious vision of the books, the films honor that vision in a way that Christian viewers can appreciate, and that for non-Christian postmoderns may represent a rare encounter with an unironic vision of good and evil. Email This Article Favorites - JANET SMITHWhile I recognize that literature is a high art form and a tremendous source of intellectual, spiritual, and moral enlightenment, I make recourse to literature largely for the purposes of therapy or entertainment. Janet Smith discusses her favorite authors. Email This Article Finding Frodo’s Faith - Joseph PearceThe Lord of the Rings is every bit as Catholic as its author. It is not only written by a Catholic, it is so Catholic that only a Catholic could have written it. Email This Article Fire in Our Darkness - MICHAEL O'BRIENMichael O'Brien explores what is necessary for the Christian art of today to be true to its subject. In modern times, the lives of two religious artists, Georges Rouault (1871-1958) and William Kurelek (1927-1977), have left us markers. Email This Article Five Best Books on Religion and Politics - Mary Ann GlendonThese literary works excel in their depiction of religion and politics. Email This Article 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. The only Catholic admitted by mainstream secular literary critics to the canon of 20th-century American authors - now excised by Catholics. A major southern writer involved in the project of explaining southerners to themselves, now prohibited in a set of southern schools. A woman known in her own day for her anti-racism now placed on the forbidden list on the grounds of racism. Email This Article 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." Email This Article 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. Email This Article 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. Email This Article Pages: [<<] ... 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 15-Jul-2008 - 10:42:04
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