Honey Moon The Handsome Family (Carrot Top Records, 2009) The Handsome Family is a perfectly postmodern family band. Unlike the ones that litter the bluegrass...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
Directed by Tony Gilroy (Universal, 2009) They don’t make them like this anymore. They try often enough, but only once in a blue moon do they get the magic...
Why Go to Church? The Drama of the Eucharist By Timothy Radcliffe, O.P. (Continuum, 2009) In the face of our “spiritual but not religious” and...
There are plenty of good reasons why a parish should have a book club and why parishioners should participate in one. Beyond the obvious benefits of...
No Line on the Horizon U2 (Universal-Island Records, 2009) The work on this album started when U2 was in Fez, Morocco during an International Festival of...
Milk Directed by Gus Van Sant (Focus Features, 2008) As Sean Penn plays him in Gus Van Sant’s new biopic, Harvey Milk is no Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks...
From Age to Age: How Christians Have Celebrated the Eucharist By Edward Foley (Liturgical Press, 2008) Warning: If you read this book you may never look at a...
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (Columbia, 2009) For 36 years now, Bruce Springsteen has been redefining the “rock star” job description...
By Mark J. Allman (St. Mary’s Press, 2008) “Who would Jesus kill?” asks author Mark Allman in this introduction to Christian thought on the...
Directed by Clint Eastwood (Warner Brothers, 2008) For three decades Clint Eastwood made his bread and butter celebrating the American myth of heroic violence...
