Why We Hunger for Beauty
by Francis X. MaierBeauty is an affirmation of our shared human dignity. It reminds us of life’s goodness in an age of transgressive narcissism and repudiation of the past. Continue Reading »
Why the Novus Ordo Needs Gregorian Chant
by John T. KnowlesWhile the liturgy wars rage, the litigants do little about a glaring problem: People are leaving our communities of worship. Continue Reading »
Ugly Chickens in Heaven?
by Hans BoersmaThe Christian artist does well to remember that resolutions in art anticipate the resolution of history. Continue Reading »
No Unity Without the Cross
by Salvatore J. CordileoneOur Lady of Guadalupe unites the Old World and the New, and so a new Christian people is formed from the two—a mestizo people. Continue Reading »
The Poets' Favorite Season
by Dan HitchensIf autumn is the poets’ favorite season, it is because autumn catches us in between, regretting and hoping, seeing the seed fall and imagining its growth. Continue Reading »
The Church's Future Beauty
by Ian Marcus CorbinSpiritual and moral leadership from the American Catholic Church in the foreseeable future will need to be of a radical kind. Continue Reading »
My Protestant Oscar Predictions
by Carl R. TruemanThis year's Oscars will again display that identification of aesthetics with ethics which is now the default position of Western society.
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Evangelizing the Nones
by Robert BarronBy far the fastest-growing “religious” group in the United States is the “nones,” that is, those who claim no religious affiliation. In the latest Pew Research Center survey, fully 25 percent of the country—80 million people—say that they have no formal religion, and the growth . . . . Continue Reading »
On a Photograph of My Cousin Jean
by Catharine Savage BrosmanAs lovely as a girl aged twenty-twocan be—intelligent, slim, self-possessed,and beautiful. It’s Florida; it’s newto her, like marriage. Smiling, smartly dressed, she poses, shaded by a palm, besidea terra cotta jar. The honeymoonhas just begun, the cattleya fresh, the bridestill radiant. . . . . Continue Reading »
Escape from Enlightenment
by Eve TushnetHoly Hell confirms some stereotypes of cults and challenges others. The Buddhafield offered much that our churches don’t offer but should; it offered much that they do offer and shouldn't. Continue Reading »
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