Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
The great director slows us down to inspire reverence.
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The Word Alone Is Certain Good
Being the musings of a sometime poet from somewhere near the end of the world.
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Catholic Evangelists of the Beat Generation
Were the beatniks secret Catholics?
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Is Brideshead Revisited the 20th Century’s Greatest Novel?; Message of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV for the 60th World Day of Social Communications; Creature and Creator in Frankenstein with Shemaiah Gonzalez; Coltrane’s Shadow; Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Declared ‘Blessed’ at Mass in St. Louis; Lethe by Forester McClatchey
Hyperreality and the Purpose of Fiction
Hyperreality is the experience most manufactured products in the modern world are trying to sell you.
Friday Links
St. Thomas Aquinas on Funny Novels; Ernst Junger’s War as an Inner Experience; Paul Kingsnorth: How HUMANITY beats the MACHINE; Annie Dillard Dies at 81; Award-Winning Author Phil Klay Named President of PEN America
Rest In Peace, Annie Dillard
Denise Trull on what Annie Dillard has meant to her.
All Our Loves Must Be Ordered to a Greater Love
A Thomist reading of A Canticle for Leibowitz.
Friday Links
On Being a 9/11 Kid; Remembering a Hero, 15 Years After 9/11; More than a Matter of Taste: A Conversation on the Moral Imagination; Eric Cyr: Live in Crosby, MN
Poetry Is the Language of Faith
The veiled nature of faith requires a metaphoric, symphonic language
Friday Links
How Can You Not Be Romantic About Baseball; The Back of the Book: The Poetry and Fiction of Sally Thomas; The Real Ideal; Epiphanies of Beauty; The Music and the Google Docs
The Un-Pursuit of Happiness
Thoughts from our editor Denise Trull on what Wendell Berry’s Jayber Crow has meant to her.
Rome, Open City
Adam Seiler reviews Roberto Rosellini’s classic film.
Friday Links
How David Mason Makes Money Writing; Late Have I Loved Thee: Returning Home to Rome with St. Augsutine; Released from Countdowns; So You’ve Converted—What Now?; Poets and the faith Peter Steele
Joan of Arc and the Meaning of Life
For what purpose were you born? On man’s search for meaning.
Friday Links
Another man’s treasure by Steve Knepper; The Idea Of A Poetry Conservatory; Once Upon a Time on Mott Street; A Strange Meeting: Myron H. Broomell and Arthur William Ryder; Gauche by David J. Rothman
Falling In Love
Is the idea of romantic love and marriage the delusion of modern madness?
Friday Links
Many Must Have It by Ryan Wilson; The Perfect Mirror; Manifesto! A Podcast; The Honest Broker on An Uncanny Moment for Jazz Lovers