Grandeur and beauty in interior decoration helps to give a sense of institutional authority and self-confidence in the face of demands from activist students intoxicated by What’s Happening Right Now. Continue Reading »
Some today think Vatican II was a big mistake, though examination reveals the opposite. Continue Reading »
Frank La Rocca's Mass of the Americas is breaking records in the music world, which jointly manifests the importance of beautiful liturgies. Continue Reading »
Beauty 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 »
While the liturgy wars rage, the litigants do little about a glaring problem: People are leaving our communities of worship. Continue Reading »
The Christian artist does well to remember that resolutions in art anticipate the resolution of history. Continue Reading »
Our 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 »
If 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 »
Spiritual and moral leadership from the American Catholic Church in the foreseeable future will need to be of a radical kind. Continue Reading »
This 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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