Arts & Culture

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

Tin Can Trust

Los Lobos (Shout Factory!, 2010) Former Secretary of Labor Linda Chavez, among others, has argued that current levels of immigration from Mexico are somehow...

The Town

The Town Directed by Ben Affleck (Warner Brothers, 2010) During the Depression Warner Brothers earned much of its weekly paycheck with gangster movies in which...

Blood Flowers

Blood Flowers: A Novel By Mary Judith Ress (iUniverse, 2010)  In the late 1970s Mary Judith Ress was a young nun arriving in Latin America to do work among the...

God in America

God in America (American Experience and Frontline) on PBS With recent news of American’s lack of religious knowledge, God in America is an important...

St. Francis

Saint Francis by Robert West (Thomas Nelson, 2010) St. Francis, who lived and preached in the 13th century, is one of Christianity’s most beloved saints...

Reading list

We couldn’t include everyone’s responses in the Feedback section of October 2010’s Reader Survey, “Used books,” so here is a...

Not for Profit

Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities By Martha Nussbaum (Princeton University Press, 2010) In an age of globalization, governments and...