February 28th, 2008
I’m an online subscriber to America magazine, particularly for their thoughtful book and arts reviews. (They reviewed Awaiting Order very well, didn’t they? Check out the excerpt about halfway down this page.)
Anyhow, scanning the latest issue’s offerings, I came across two particularly interesting items:
two podcast discussions of this year’s Oscar-nominated movies (see the February 25 and March [...]
February 26th, 2008
A discussion of the book/film of Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men is going on over on the Yahoo discussion group, Literate Catholics Unite, and I thought it would do a bit of double duty for me to post here what I just posted there about this book/movie, both of which I regard as [...]
February 25th, 2008
Thanks for your patience during the last while—we transferred to a new host, which took a bit, then succumbed to a wonky database the last few days that caused us to lose the last few weeks of posts. I think we’ll be able to get those back up again, but the good news is I [...]
Debra Murphy on Reviving Christianity’s Artistic Tradition
Kelly Hatzenbihler on Reviving Christianity’s Artistic Tradition
Rach on Nessun Dorma, As You’ve Never Heard it Before
Kathleen Lundquist on Reviving Christianity’s Artistic Tradition Debra Murphy on Reviving Christianity’s Artistic Tradition
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale
Joan of Arc: A Life (Penguin Lives) by Mary Gordon
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The concentration resulting fom a framework of theology and philosophy, [T.S. Eliot] says, is one of the reasons ‘why Dante is a classic and Blake only a poet of genius.’ The intellectual disorder of the nineteenth century gave the poet no such system, indeed it imposed upon him the necessity of being at once an artist and an original speculative thinker—an impossible combination. Thus the effort to construct for himself a workable plan out of the odds and ends of the wreckage of philosophical systems not infrequently resulted in grotesque and unsteady structures, the early collapse of which left him a prey to despair and frustration.
— Calvert Alexander, SJ