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...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
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...
Garland Jeffreys (Luna Park Records, 2011) OK, so the guy’s 68 years old, and it’s been about 15 years since his last record. And his sound is still anchored...
Directed by Cindy Meehl (Sundance Selects, 2011) In Genesis 2 God responds to Adam’s isolation by creating animals to provide the lonely human with companions...
By Thomas H. Groome (HarperOne, 2011) Toward the end of his public ministry, Jesus asked, “When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?” (Luke 18:8)...
Where the Hell is God? By Richard Leonard, S.J. Foreword by James Martin, S.J. Review: An earthquake in Haiti, a tsunami in Japan, a child stricken with...
