“Well, Mick, what’s this stuff called again—Bushmills?
It’s very good, but I’ve had better yet:
The scarlet ale of Aztec altars wet,
The absinthe of an abdicated will,
The mead of churning spilth from poison mills,
The wine of groaning thralldom’s tortured sweat,
The black milk of despair from souls of jet,
Sweet seas of tears that drown the looming hills.” [Read more...]
Drinking with Lucifer
Pre-Christian Infusion: Faith. Hope and Charity in The Lord of the Rings
David Rozema
In the Summa Theologica, St. Thomas Aquinas distinguishes the four cardinal moral virtues of fortitude, temperance, wisdom, and justice from the three theological virtues of faith, hope, and love (charity). He maintains that the moral virtues of fortitude, temperance, wisdom, and justice are virtues only in “a restricted sense”: they bring only a “natural happiness.” But the very same moral virtues can be a part of a “supernatural happiness” if the practice of them is supported by the theological virtues. So a person may possess the moral virtues of fortitude, temperance, wisdom, and justice without possessing the theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity, but that person’s moral virtue will be imperfect. [Read more...]
“The Splendor and the Wackiness”: An Interview with Heather King
Katy Carl
After living on both coasts of the United States, working jobs as diverse as waitress and lawyer, surviving alcoholism, cancer, and divorce, and undergoing a life-altering conversion, Catholic writer Heather King might be said to have seen it all. Her most recent memoir, Redeemed, strives to set down these experiences and more as viewed through the fresh eyes of a new Catholic. In her writing, King expresses a truth that her heroine Flannery O’Connor described: that, though faith may seem to some a “peculiar and arrogant blindness,” it can be an “extension of vision” when the believer engages and records reality with honesty and clarity. Or, as King puts it herself, faith enables us to see in a unique way “the meat and the splendor and the wackiness and the grittiness” of the world and of our experience. [Read more...]
Mary, Queen of Angels 2008
Publisher’s Note
Feature
David Rozema,
Pre-Christian Infusion: Faith, Hope, and Charity in The Lord of the Rings
Fiction
Arthur Powers,
Carla and Jaime
Eleanor Bourg Donlon,
The Game of Sean McTeague
Dena Hunt,
The Salvation of Glorianne
Enrique Garcia-Maiquez,
499
Poetry
J.B. Toner,
- Tears
- Winter Rain
- Drinking With Lucifer
- That My Kitchen is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Extinguisher
David Landrum,
Roads Walked and Barred
Kate Bluett,
Mesquite
Amanda Griswold,
Gadarene
Gabriel Olearnik,
Joseph O’Brien,
Sarah Gajkowski-Hill,
Pity
Interviews
Katy Carl,
“The Splendor and the Wackiness”: An Interview with Heather King
Reviews
Katy Carl,
Redeemed
Eleanor Bourg Donlon,
Ignatius Critical Editions
Art and Photography
Milo Duke,
- St. Luke Painting Mary
- St. John of God during His Madness: Anxiety
- St. Alexander on the Morning of the First Decimation
Matthew Alderman,
Patrick Anderson,
S. Victoria of Cordoba, Virgin and Martyr
S. Victoria of Cordoba, Virgin and Martyr Matthew Alderman
Our Lady, Queen of the Apostles, with an Attendant Angel
Our Lady, Queen of the Apostles, with an Attendant Angel – Milo Duke
St. Alexander on the Morning of the First Decimation
St. Alexander on the Morning of the First Decimation – Milo Duke
