Songs of a Lost World The Cure (Fiction Records, 2024) After 16 years of recording dormancy, British band The Cure is back with an album, Songs of a Lost...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
The predominant theme of our contemporary culture is increasingly expressed by a single word: division. From homilies, news, and podcasts to conversations with...
When I sat down to watch Jon Chu’s film adaptation of Stephen Schwartz’s smash-hit musical Wicked, I expected to be captivated—and I was. Having seen the...
Circle of Hope By Eliza Griswold (Macmillan Publishers, 2024) Church is a place where many people hope to find peace, but churches are made up of human beings...
Talking about his late friend Thomas Merton, acclaimed jazz vibraphonist Dick Sisto says jazz resembles Merton’s own approach to writing. Sisto, a former...
Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror Directed by Hiroshi Nagahama & Yuji Moriyama (Adult Swim, 2024) It only took five years in development, but the anime...
Dreams are important. In fact, Pope Francis has encouraged us to dream. Some people have modest dreams, others have big dreams, yet all our dreams affect the...
Massachusetts-based writer Mary McGarry Morris suspects her 2024 novel The Silence (Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.) was too hard hitting to have garnered...
The Divine Christology of the Apostle Paul By Chris Bruno, John J. R. Lee, and Thomas R. Schreiner (InterVarsity Press, 2024) Jesus shapes our Christian...
What does a vampire give his girlfriend for Christmas? Do homicide detectives eat figgy pudding on stakeouts? Why is there mistletoe in outer space? Annual TV...
