There is no particular person author Ann Patchett has looked to for inspiration. Instead, she credits her Catholic faith for teaching her a boundless capacity...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
Here are a few books U.S. Catholic editors think are worth adding to your reading list this month Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life...
Directed by Christopher Nolan (Warner Brothers, 2008) The truth understood by every 14-year-old comic book fan is that we love superheroes not because they are...
Carrie Newcomer (Rounder, 2008) Back when I used to sort my CDs into categories (back when I still bought CDs), one section was devoted to inspirational female...
By William T. Cavanaugh (Eerdmans, 2008) Luke tells us in Acts 2 that the earliest Christians formed economic communities shaped by the Eucharist, sharing...
By Ron Hansen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008) The pivotal moment in Ron Hansen's Exiles comes almost exactly midway through the 225-page book. A fellow...
By Andrew Krivak (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008) What happens when a young person in a secular age feels God calling him to a decidedly countercultural way...
Directed by Noam Murro (Miramax, 2008) In a land where brains and hard work are supposed to produce success and happiness, there are a lot of smart, miserable...
By Jim Wallis (HarperOne, 2008) Jim Wallis' prayers seem to have been answered. In 2005 the founding editor of Sojourners magazine decried the state of...
Kathy Mattea (R.E.D. Distribution, 2008) Kathy Mattea has always been an odd country music star. She's an environmental activist in a genre that often...
