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...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
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...
By Kathleen Norris (Riverhead, 2008) Did you know there used to be eight deadly sins? In the era of the Desert Fathers and Mothers, monks called them "bad...
Have you read a good book lately? A quarter century ago a dean at Boston College started serving up 27 ways to say yes to that question. The Dean's...
“Modern spiritual classics” recommended by Kathleen Norris, Martin E. Marty, Joyce Rupp, Joan Chittister, and other prominent U.S. Catholic contributors...
Thou shalt not stop ordinary Catholics from using the Internet to speak their minds. When Genevieve Kineke and a group of laywomen decided this year to...
On the feast of the Corpus Christi last year Pope John Paul II called for a special year dedicated to the Eucharist, and Christians looking to nourish their...
