The Church Needs Beauty

by Maggie Gallagher

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 »

14 Oct 2022

Why We Hunger for Beauty

by Francis X. Maier

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 »

2 May 2022

Why the Novus Ordo Needs Gregorian Chant

by John T. Knowles

While the liturgy wars rage, the litigants do little about a glaring problem: People are leaving our communities of worship. Continue Reading »

16 Sep 2021

Ugly Chickens in Heaven?

by Hans Boersma

The Christian artist does well to remember that resolutions in art anticipate the resolution of history. Continue Reading »

3 Nov 2020

No Unity Without the Cross

by Salvatore J. Cordileone

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 »

28 Nov 2019

The Poets' Favorite Season

by Dan Hitchens

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 »

25 Nov 2019

The Church's Future Beauty

by Ian Marcus Corbin

Spiritual and moral leadership from the American Catholic Church in the foreseeable future will need to be of a radical kind. Continue Reading »

3 Sep 2018

My Protestant Oscar Predictions

by Carl R. Trueman

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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27 Feb 2018

Evangelizing the Nones

by Robert Barron

By 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 »

1 Jan 2018

On a Photograph of My Cousin Jean

by Catharine Savage Brosman

As 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 »

1 Aug 2017