Tiny Lazarus.
Your story bigger than you and us.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
Angela Alaimo O'Donnell
Angela Alaimo O’Donnell teaches literature and creative writing at Fordham University and serves as associate director of the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies. Her poetry collection The View from Childhood (Paraclete Press) is forthcoming in 2026,
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
Ernest Hemingway was a brilliant writer and a terrible person. Discuss.
A new PBS documentary makes us ask: Is it possible to admire the art produced by a writer whom the reader dislikes, disdains, perhaps even despises?
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Why Micheal O’Siadhail is an epic poet for the 21st century
“The Five Quintets” is a narrative we need, a jazz concert performed by hundreds of instruments, a single symphony sung by many voices.
Posted inArt, Arts & Culture
The Catholic art of Frida Kahlo
Kahlo’s paintings, the vast majority of which are self-portraits, are rife with self-revelation,
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
Andalusian Hours
I see them lining up for slaughter,/ Judas at the head of the pack/ grunting his way to survival, while my/ pigs do not stand a chance, doomed creatures/ that they are, and it’s a good thing.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
How Flannery O’Connor found her art—and her God—in letters
Letter writing is a genre O’Connor would master after she was diagnosed with lupus and exiled to her mother’s farm.
Posted inArts & Culture, Last Take
The fall of Ernest Hemingway
“Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy.” –F. Scott Fitzgerald Reading a great biography is like watching a tragedy unfold. The promises of youth gradually give way to the limitations imposed by reality, and demise and denouement inevitably ensue. This is especially compelling when the subject of the biography is a larger-than-life […]
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
What I learned about my Catholic faith from watching a bullfight
The bullfight enacts the human drama each of us participates in.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
Why are we so fascinated with the lives of the English queens?
If the rich are different from you and me, how much more different, then, are royalty?
Posted inArts & Culture, Of Other Things
Praying with Bruce Springsteen
Helpless Catholic that I am, I have a confession to make. I am a Bruce Springsteen devotee.