April 2012: Simple Faith: Moving Beyond Religion As You Know It to Grow in Your Relationship with God By Margaret Silf Review: As we mature through life, all...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
By Eamon Duffy (Yale University Press, 2011) Quick, can you name 10 popes off the top of your head? OK, maybe you can, but how about explaining the difference...
By Brian Doyle (ACTA Publications, 2011) Brian Doyle must have been listening intently when poet Mary Oliver proclaimed, “Attentiveness is the beginning of all...
Chuck Prophet (Yep Roc, 2012) Chuck Prophet has been known in the alt-rock world since the mid-1980s when he signed on as chief guitar-slinger for a great alt...
For most of the 20th century, movies and television have cast gay and lesbian characters as deviant bad guys. But as attitudes in the larger public change, so...
March 2012: Between Heaven and Mirth: Why Joy, Humor, and Laughter Are at the Heart of the Spiritual Life By James Martin, S.J. Review: If you ever got in...
Directed by Stephen Daldry (Paramount, 2011) Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2005 novel about a 9-year-old boy whose father is killed on 9/11 angered and touched a lot...
Directed by Bennett Miller (Sony Pictures, 2011) Baseball can conjure up nostalgic images of peanuts and crackerjacks, sunny days, and cornfields in Iowa. But...
Hollywood’s leading actor shines in roles that show success doesn’t always bring happiness. My seventh-grade English teacher once asserted that...
Steven Spielberg’s latest film is a testament to war’s silent soldier. “Home is the sailor, home from the sea, and the hunter home from the...
