A Homily for Pentecost, by Father Terrance Klein
Poetry
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
PBS’s ‘Dante’ introduces the divine poet—and neglects his Catholic faith
Ric Burns’s splendid two-part PBS documentary, “Dante: Inferno to Paradise,” has brought Dante’s achievement beyond the groves of academe and into America’s living rooms.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: In his latest book, Christian Wiman looks despair in the face
In ‘Zero at the Bone,’ Christian Wiman offers a prismatic series of 50 chapters (52, counting the mystical zeros at the beginning and end) featuring essays, poems, theological reflections, personal reminiscences and literary analyses.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
Spring poetry roundup: Mini catechisms in verse
In one way or another, these collections bear the traces of the divine, of the needful Christ.
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The timeless Celtic spirituality of John O’Donohue, poet and priest
John O’Donohue focuses on how paying attention to the outer landscape of our world cultivates the inner landscape of our soul.
Posted inArts & Culture, Interviews
The Odyssey’s first woman translator on war, religion and why Homer still matters
An interview with Emily Wilson discusses the importance of the ‘Iliad’ to both young and old readers, its relationship with faith and what lessons we can glean about essential human nature from such an ancient text.
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Abyssfishing
my shiver-feathered
fly like prayer
arcing sinking
through the air
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
The Grail Quest
May the poem, grasped and penned, be the Grail
sustaining hearts healed for a spell
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
James Dickey, America’s ‘bare-chested bard’
James Dickey’s public persona of fighter pilot, champion athlete and hard-drinking woodsman who wrote of “country surrealism” gave him an everyman appeal, even as he was perhaps the nation’s greatest poetic talent.
