I’m reading a lovely novel by Rumer Godden called “In This House of Brede.” It’s very British, written in quietly intelligent prose. Godden respectfully narrates the inner-workings of a Benedictine abbey—the nuns’ working out their salvation together, emotion, temptation, mystery, and all. Continue Reading »
“The Art of the Beautiful,” a Lenten Evening of Recollection, and more.
The Bells of Ordinary Time
Tessa Carman, Fare Forward
The Loss of Faith Made Music Mute
Oliver Rudland, Standpoint
Endless Love
James Parker, The Atlantic
The newest Doctor of the Church was not a Catholic. Continue Reading »
In the ongoing cultural disputes that pit a person’s sexual “identity” against a person’s religious liberty, it’s not often that you see eye-popping courage and conviction. Continue Reading »
The Novel as Protestant Art
Joseph Bottum, Books & Culture
Patriarch Urges Prayer After at Least 90 Christians Kidnapped in Syria
Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency
Interviews: Philip Larkin, The Art of Poetry No. 30
Interview by Robert Phillips, The Paris Review
Richard Linklater Might Make an Actual Boyhood Sequel
Matt Wayt, A.V. Club
How Massachusetts Bay bred a religious Anglo-American political radicalism of lasting importance. Continue Reading »
In the debate over the plusses and minuses of social media, it is common to hear a point that changes the terms completely. I’ve witnessed it in forums dozens of times: “We have to remember that these are just tools. It all depends on how you use them.” Continue Reading »
On Secular Society and Allure of ISIS
William E. Carroll, The Catholic Thing
Saturday Night Lights
Jake Meador, Fare Forward
Thomism in the 21rst Century: Q & A With Father Romanus Cessario, O.P.
Sean Salai, S. J. America
In her Yahoo! Parenting article “I Terminated My Baby with Down Syndrome,” Sophie Horan is not shy about painting her abortion as choice made with her baby’s interests in mind. She claims her unborn baby “deserved better than a life of struggle and frustration due to a condition that he or she would never be able to change.” Bad news, Sophie Horan, this is true for all of us, Down syndrome or no. Continue Reading »
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