So much of growing up is learning what love really is. ‘Coraline’ reminds us what love is not.
Arts & Culture
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Holy sinners and doubting saints: The fiction of Brian Moore
Despite his public antipathy toward Catholicism, a number of Brian Moore’s novels dealt subtly and deftly with the profound emotional impact of struggles with faith.
Posted inArts & Culture, Vantage Point
From 1999: Brian Moore’s Christ-Haunted Fiction
From Brian Moore’s earliest and best known novel, ‘The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne,’ to his last, ‘The Magician’s Wife,’ the mystery of belief has haunted his best fiction.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Movie Club
Catholic Movie Club: What if vampires were lonely?
“Let the Right One In” is about loneliness, the type society imposes on us and the type we impose on ourselves.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
You won’t have any clue what Catholic exorcists do after suffering through ‘The Exorcist: Believer’
Why can’t Hollywood reinvent ‘The Exorcist’? Money, lots of it, can be the only reason why any studio would invest in this franchise.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
Lament
Though it felt wrong to sleep, I slept,
and when I woke and remembered, I wept.
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
My Heavy Metal Walk With God
Heavy metal has the power to name the darkness in the world—the injustice, the suffering, but also the numinous.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Contemplating death, eschatology and eternity
John E. Thiel of Fairfield University ventures to propose a “thick” eschatology based on the idea of a continuation of the human response to grace into an afterlife in ‘Now and Forever: A Theological Aesthetics of Time.’
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: ‘Escape to Florence’ is a refreshingly apolitical novel in our hyper-politicized age
‘Escape to Florence’ stays within the bounds of its own story: the intimate and historical particulars of dual love stories, and the rich Italian backdrop against which both are set.