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...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
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...
How much should we worry about the daily dose of interactive, virtual murder and mayhem in our kids’ lives? Video games first came to an arcade or home...
Directed by David Fincher (Paramount Pictures, 2008) David Fincher’s movie version of a farcical short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald tells the backwards...
