Give us a magic trick,
but not a miracle.
Arts & Culture
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Why Catholics should have compassion for Kim Kardashian—and Kanye West
If we become numb to the suffering of others, even the Kims and Kanyes of the world who may seem beyond our sympathetic reach, we may also be numbing ourselves to the suffering of people in our own lives.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Talking truth and lies with the Norwegian novelist who won the Nobel Prize
Sigrid Undset wrote the famous “Kristin Lavransdatter” trilogy and won the Nobel Prize. She also was a sometime contributor to America during the Second World War after the Nazi invasion of Norway had forced her into exile.
Posted inArts & Culture, Vantage Point
Sigrid Undset on lies, truths and the Catholic writer
Sigrid Undset, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928, contributed numerous articles to America, including this 1942 essay on Catholic writers.
Posted inArts & Culture, GoodNews
March Madness starts with a Catholic school miracle: Saint Peter’s upset of Kentucky
A small Jesuit school—Saint Peter’s University of Jersey City, N.J.—upset the mighty University of Kentucky in the first round of the N.C.A.A. tournament.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Netflix’s ‘The Lost Daughter’ upends centuries of images of (Catholic) motherhood
“The Lost Daughter” raises startling questions about the role of motherhood as it comes into conflict with a woman’s desire to achieve something beyond domestic responsibilities.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Finding our way back to the farm
Half memoir of farm life, half manifesto against modern agricultural practices, James Rebanks’s ‘Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey’ urges us to return to our agrarian roots.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: How to live a scholarly life with gratitude and grace
In his new memoir, John W. O’Malley reflects on a life of priestly ministry and teaching, and offers lessons on how to live a scholarly life.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: It’s good to be king. It’s better to be Caesar.
In ‘Twelve Caesars,’ Mary Beard analyzes the reception and adaptation of ancient Roman imperial portraits in Western European and American art from the 15th century to the present.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
Corpus Christi Honeymoon
two coals burning incense clouds to the heavens,
abandoned pretty much to the harmony of us