Arts & Culture

Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.

Listen: Wise Up Ghost

Elvis Costello and The Roots (Blue Note, 2013) The coupling might raise a few eyebrows, but Elvis Costello and hip-hop outfit The Roots have more in common...

Read: Atchison Blue

By Judith Valente (Sorin Books, 2013) As is the case for so many Catholics today, Judith Valente’s faith had been chipped away by the clergy sexual abuse...

Watch: Gravity

Directed by Alfonso Cuarón (Warner Bros., 2013) Films like Alfonso Cuarón’s magnificent Gravity are few and far between. Too often...

Watch: Still Mine

Directed by Michael McGowan (Samuel Goldwyn, 2013) In Michael McGowan’s touching love story about an aging married couple, Craig and Irene Morrison...