Father Robert Barron, a Chicago priest who has appeared often in the pages of U.S. Catholic since his interview with the editors in 1997, has brought his...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
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...
The title may catch your eye, but don’t let it fool you. Irshad Manji’s book is not just for and about Muslims. Subtitled “The Courage to Reconcile Faith and...
Compiled by Carol DeChant (ACTA, 2011) Like any good eulogy, this book focuses not only on death, but on life. Carol DeChant gathers 50 eulogies that mark the...
October 2011: Streams of Contentment: Lessons I Learned on My Uncle’s Farm By Robert J. Wicks Review: The word contentment in the title may not be strong...
Directed by John Madden (Marv Films, 2010) John Madden’s cagey thriller about three Mossad agents sent to capture a Nazi war criminal hiding out in East Berlin...
By Stephanie Saldaña (Anchor Books, 2011) The Arab Spring, which began in Tunisia and spread into Egypt and Libya, has become a seemingly inexorable movement...
By Charles E. Curran (Georgetown University Press, 2011) Catholic social teaching has been described as the church’s “best kept secret,” and 130 years after...
Ollabelle (Thirty Tigers, 2011) On the first track of the new Ollabelle album, a clavinet, sounding like an electrified mouth harp, hacks out a riff that...
September 2011: The Monastery of the Heart: An Invitation to a Meaningful Life By Joan Chittister Review: In her new book, The Monastery of the Heart, Erie...
