The Gaslight Anthem (Side One Dummy, 2010) If your idea of rock and roll requires three-chord guitars, bass and drums, and a dead-earnest sense of commitment...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
When the Claretians started printing a magazine 75 years ago, they couldn’t have imagined Internet publishing, let alone web 2.0 tools and social...
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion By Gregory Boyle, S.J. (Free Press, 2010) While reading the stories of the “homies” that Father Gregory...
Olivia and the Little Way by Nancy Carabio Belanger (Harvey House Publishing, 2008) Olivia and the Little Way is a delightful children’s novel about...
Directed by Lee Unkrich (Disney/Pixar, 2010) In the third chapter of Pixar’s saga about a boy’s toys, the plastic and wooden playthings that fill...
Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years By Diarmaid MacCulloch (Viking, 2010) Haters of history often ask the point of knowing names and dates, pointing...
Mary Gauthier (Razor and Tie, 2010) Singer-songwriter extraordinaire Mary Gauthier (“go-shay”) has a voice like a rusty string on a slide guitar. But that...
Stieg Larsson Trilogy: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage, 2009), The Girl Who Played With Fire (Vintage, 2010), and The Girl Who Kicked the...
Directed by Niels Arden Oplev (Music Box Films, 2009) Fans of the late Stieg Larsson’s crime trilogy (a dark Harry Potter for adult murder mystery fans) will...
The Living Sisters (Vanguard, 2010) Nearly eight years ago in a cramped, dimly lit room illuminated by a few strings of white Christmas lights, I first became...
