In her new book, Uprooted, Grace Olmstead investigates the social and personal costs of shopping for a place to live the way we shop for cars.
Arts & Culture
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
when God saves you from an overdose
I assume I was seen in the way
a postcard is seen
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
Because my hands are small compared to God’s
it is easier to trust God with worlds than with sons
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Christmas pageants and school plays are back. Thank God.
We are now in the season of schools plays and Christmas concerts. In the past, it’s been something of an endurance test, hasn’t it? But maybe it’s different this year.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Your kid doesn’t want a pony for Christmas. She wants a book.
Over the years, the bookworms at America Media have compiled list upon list of books that would make good Christmas gifts. Here is a sample.
Posted inArts & Culture, Podcasts
Joyful and triumphant: ‘O Come All Ye Faithful’ brings a message of hope to those who are suffering
We do not generally think about Christmas carols as about a battle. And yet what does it mean for the Christ child to be our savior, if not a blessed release from some kind of struggle?
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
The history of a Christmas classic, ‘O Come, All Ye Faithful’
“O Come, All Ye Faithful” is a song almost everyone knows. But where did it come from, and why is it so popular?
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
Patrick Kavanagh is the Catholic poet we should be reading this Advent
Kavanagh’s poem looks to Advent for a sort of poetic and spiritual rebirth, a chance to reacquaint ourselves with the “newness that was in every stale thing.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Review: ‘Belfast,’ a memoir of Protestant boyhood in Troubles-torn Northern Ireland, gives a child’s-eye view of Catholicism
“Belfast” presents itself as a family photo album: Violence may intrude, but it doesn’t crowd out the Christmas pictures.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Review: In Steven Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story,’ every element sings — and every moment counts
What this quintessential stage musical needed, apparently, was a thoroughgoing cinematic makeover.