Arts & Culture

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

The Star of Christmas

The Star of Christmas By Maria T DiVencenzo with illustrations by Elaine S. Verstraete (Winterlake Press, 2009) Opening the Christmas tree box is an emotional...

Write About Love

Write About Love By Belle and Sebastian (Matador Records, 2010) I have a really bad attitude about the clever, collegiate, and self-consciously catchy indie...

Hereafter

Hereafter Directed by Clint Eastwood (Warner Brothers, 2010) For almost half a century Clint Eastwood has been making films about death, but nearly all of...

Full of Grace

Full of Grace By Judith Dupré Random House, 2010 Books about Mary often become a cover for a particular ideology. If the devil can quote scripture, then any...

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...