
Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.

Friday Links
B.D. McClay on Northanger Abbey; Dana Gioia on Gerard Manley Hopkins; Wilfred M. McClay reviews Arthur Kirsch’s Auden and Christianity; JMW on “Man Is Born to Behold Beauty“; Collegium’s The Art of Friendship

Is Dappled Things too down on the Catholic writing scene?
A response to a recent book review in our magazine

Friday Links
Great Vespers; Julia Yost on The Scandal of Dogmatism; The God of Wes Anderson; Daniel McInerny asks: What Moves Your Heart?; Pope Leo on the workers in the vineyard; A Ukrainian Crime Caper That Undermines Expectations; MAiD: Are We Sleepwalking Down a Slippery Slope?

We’re Holding the Blossoms Up High
Reflections on safety, boundaries, and wandering in the modern world.

Friday Links
Christopher Honey reviews Fret Not by Michael Shindler; Fr. Herman Majkrzak: Recovering a Full Theological Vision of the Ascension; Catholic Culture Podcast and Fr. John Nepil; Ascending to the Seven Virtues of J.R.R. Tolkien; Margaret Noodin reviews Matthew Brennan’s The Sea-Crossing of Saint Brendan; Cardinal Dolan on NY’s Assisted Suicide Bill

Passacaglia and predestination
Biber’s musical masterpiece reveals the logic of beauty straining for its proper end.
Friday Links
St. Rita of Cascia; A Rose in Winter; Matthew Milliner: The Puffins and Evelyn Underhill; Itxu Díaz: The Enduring Legacy of the Spanish Mystics; Tara Isabella Burton on transgression and art

Announcing the Winners of the 2024 Jacques Maritain Prize in Nonfiction
Dappled Things is pleased to announce the winners of our 2024 Jacques Maritain Prize for Nonfiction.

Good Country People
Daniel Fitzpatrick argues that, if there is an ethical purpose of art, it’s to make us feel rightly.

Friday Links
A Cultural Vision for Conservatism; Catholic Social Teaching; Converting Beauty into Prayer; Julian of Norwich’s Radical Trust; Benjamin Parviz on Gabriel Marcel

Educating for eternity
On the cultivation of beauty through Catholic education

Friday Links
Habemus Papem!; DT’s Easter Issue; New Issue of NVR; Joyful Writing with Shemaiah Gonzalez; Collegium GCL Series; Persuasion on the small press

You gave me hyacinths first a year ago
Lyndall Gordon's "The Hyacinth Girl: T.S. Eliot's Hidden Muse"

Friday Links
“The Pause” by Christopher Honey; Confession Eclipsed; John Wilson on “The Erosion of Sin”; How God Sees Us; Painting with Sunlight: The Stained Glass Art of Harry Clarke; Who Will Help a Stranded Manatee?

The scapegoat that broke the cycle
Rene Girard and the power of the Easter miracle

Friday Links
We have a winner!; Out of Practice; An Age of Extinction Is Coming. Here’s How to Survive; Poetess (and Possible Future Saint) Captures Essence of Holy Saturday; Ishion Hutchinson on Les Murray; Catholic Culture Podcast: On René Girard—Trevor Cribben Merrill
Announcing the Winners of the 2024 J.F. Powers Prize in Short Fiction

Is there such thing as a writerly vocation?
Don’t miss this one from Angela Townsend:
“I am aware I am insufferable. I am not concerned. God said something once about suffering small mammals. I assume God finds me hilarious. I write about my cats more than any mortal could stomach. I write about cola, pantyhose, and the actual Holy Ghost. I write about Hildegard of Bingen, pretzel nuggets, and the old man at work who signs sticky notes, “your forever friend, Joe.” I write about senators, Shaquille O’Neal, and walruses walrusing mightily upon the shore.“

Friday Links
The Miracle That Grew From the Ashes of 2018; Rhonda Ortiz on The Coming Home Network; Easter Bouquest of Poems 2025; Jordan Castro on Gatsby; Ethan McGuire: The Rusty Paperweight

John Keats and the times we’re in
The pursuit of beauty is the perfect response to uncertainty.