PBS’s Frontline has a fascinating 2003 interview with Eamon Duffy, author of The Stripping of the Altars (see right sidebar) , which I’m in the middle of right now. The discussion was about Pope John Paul II, and contains some amazing insights about JP the Great, and the impact he has had on the Church [...]

If any of you have ever fallen under the spell of Dumas, as I did as a teenager with The Count of Monte Cristo, this will prove exciting news: A retired French academic has recovered a Dumas novel, The Chevalier of Sainte-Hermine, which was serialized in the mid-nineteenth century and never published as a [...]

Our first Catholic fiction book and movie reviews are now up on Idylls Press. They include Christine Murray’s review of Francois Mauriac’s A Woman of the Pharisees, my review of Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow, and my son John’s reviews of the movies Batman Begins and The Merchant of Venice.
If any of our readers would [...]

That inspires so many conspiracy theories? Here’s an interesting article from the Guardian on an art historian’s theory that a spate of “pregnant Madonna” art works in Tuscany in the fifteenth century is related to the suppression of the Knights templar.

Here is a Pittsburgh Catholic article and interview with Carl Olson on current popular examples of anti-Catholic fiction.