Jon Fosse’s ‘Septology’ is a literary masterpiece imbued with mysticism and theological insight.
Arts & Culture
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Movie Club
The only horror movie ever recommended by the Vatican
“Nosferatu” is a potent portrait of evil, both supernatural and mundane.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Avery Dulles, a giant of American Catholic theology
Avery Dulles was widely respected across the Catholic theological spectrum for his scholarly acumen and even-handed, measured approach to complex doctrinal questions.
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
Reviews: ‘Our Town’ returns to Broadway, and Jez Butterworth revisits 1950s England
Two new productions on Broadway—“The Hills of California” and ”Our Town”—meditate on theater as a kind of shared imaginative space.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Movie Club
‘A Ghost Story’ reminds us how difficult it is to let go
Ghost stories speak to how deeply we love, but also to a desire to prolong our lives however we can.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
A.I., C.S. Lewis and the dangers of artificial prophets
There have always been false prophets, but now we have something else: artificial ones.
Posted inArts & Culture, Faith
Judas Kiss
his own hands bound by his will, they offer no resistance, to those he knows will kill
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
Washing windows at the Catholic Worker
Because this house is a dandelion gone to seed. Fragile and full of possibility.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: The intersection of faith and mental illness
Anna Gazmarian’s ‘Devout’ is an emotional, vulnerable portrait of a woman who was failed by two institutions, both science and religion, that she rightfully believed would help her.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Are we all liberal protestants?
In ‘Citizens Yet Strangers,’ Kenneth Craycraft argues that the American political order presupposes the goodness of the Fall, rather than our original created goodness.