In 1990, as the country prepared to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus, something in Father John Giuliani’s heart recoiled...
Art
Our family was visiting our pastor’s house when our daughter Teenasia, then 9, commented on a framed print on the wall. It was a black Madonna and child. “That...
An epic quest for cultural identity unfolds in the pages of Gene Luen Yang’s graphic novels. When Pope John Paul II canonized 120 Catholics from China in 2000...
Fra Angelico [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons In Dante Allegheri’s epic poem Inferno, those words are inscribed over the gates of hell. Written in the...
Editors’ note: Sounding Board is one person’s take on a many-sided subject and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of U.S. Catholic, its editors...
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits By Linda Gordon (W. W. Norton & Company, 2009) In the 1930s President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Farm...
Holiness and the Feminine Spirit: The Art of Janet McKenzie Edited by Susan Perry (Orbis Books, 2009) Early disciples never said how Jesus looked, so...
I love to make stuff, which doesn’t make me much different from many women I know. Lots of us like to knit, quilt, crochet, or do needlepoint for a whole...
As a child I have a vivid memory of thumbing through a large book owned my grandfather that riveted my attention. It was a collection of the illustrations done...