Arts & Culture

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

Adult Faith

Adult Faith: Growing in Wisdom and Understanding by: Diarmuid O’Murchu (Orbis Books, 2010). Catholics wondering when their church will rise from...

Let England Shake

Let England Shake P.  J. Harvey (Vagrant Records, 2011) England’s reputation as an island of eccentrics is longstanding, and for the past two decades P. J...

Of God and men

Of Gods and Men Directed by Xavier Beauvois (Why Not Productions, 2011) While accepting an award for his film, the French director of “Of Gods and Men” said...

Think and Act Anew

Think and Act Anew By Father Larry Snyder (Orbis, 2010) “If you give a man a fish you feed him for a day,” goes the old saying, “but if you teach him to fish...

Oscar buzz: Catholic movie reviews

Hollywood celebrates the best in film from the past year with the Academy Awards show this weekend. What were your favorite movies of the year? Share your...

The Fighter

The Fighter Directed by David O. Russell (Paramount, 2010) Boxing films are invariably tales of lion-hearted toughs from the wrong side of the tracks...