A long line has formed at the information desk at Borders, so I wait my turn behind a student studying her syllabus and a tourist-type, probably looking for a...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
Nearly 40 years ago Soviet Cosmonaut Yury Gagarin was shot up into the heavens and reported back that he could see no signs of God in space. Judging from...
When the news about our recently named Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's Jewish roots exploded in early February, I scurried to my book of quotes to...
Imagine being a supporter of the Vietnam antiwar movement and the son of a lieutenant general who is the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Imagine...
What have been the most influential books published in the Catholic world in the past generation? I expanded the scope of that question to include the three...
Steve Earle (New West, 2007) Steve Earle is, without question, the most overtly political artist in American popular culture. For a long time his activism (and...
Edited by Angelo Matera (Ave Maria Press, 2008) If the essayists in a new Godspy.com book are living Faith at the Edge, as the book is named, the majority of...
Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky (Sony Pictures Classics, 2007) Holocaust films often present concentration camp inmates as if they were only victims, not complex...
Directed by Kimberly Peirce (Paramount, 2008) Five years and more than 4,000 U.S. deaths after the president declared "mission accomplished," the...
By Maura Weis (Sorin Books/Ave Maria Press, 2008) Miles from the Sideline is an appropriate title for Maura Weis’ account of life with her daughter...
