My all-time favorite movie—not just favorite Christmas movie—is It’s a Wonderful Life. Plenty of ink has been spilled over this movie, sometimes revering it as...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
In the online Catholic multiverse, there exists a digitally painted reimagining of the coronation of the Blessed Mother by Dani M. Jiménez, a 20-year-old...
God Save the Animals Alex G (Domino, 2022) Singer-songwriter Alex G (the G is short for Giannascoli), now 29, began his music career from his high school...
Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions By Sabine Hossenfelder (Viking, 2022) Finding a good popularizer for cutting-edge physics...
Heartland is a family show without corruption or treachery, a cowboy show that focuses on women, and a western show set not in the United States but in...
Unruly Saint: Dorothy Day’s Radical Vision and Its Challenge for Our Times By D.L. Mayfield (Broadleaf Books, 2022) People who write and speak about Dorothy...
The School for Good Mothers By Jessamine Chan (Simon & Schuster, 2022) “A mother is always patient. A mother is always kind. A mother is always giving. . ...
I recently found myself in conversation on St. Pope John Paul II’s classic 1999 Letter to Artists. In it he writes about how these “ingenious creators of...
The Princess Directed by Ed Perkins (HBO MAX, 2022) Although she’s been gone longer than she was the Princess of Wales, Diana Spencer remains a cultural icon;...
Seven Psalms By Nick Cave (Cave Things, 2022) Have you ever listened to a favorite poet recite beloved poems? The words, so well known, are made new in the...
