The Exorcist: “An Argument for God”
Blatty’s misunderstood “apostolic work”
“Mass of the Americas” and the Flourishing of Religious Culture
In our era, new musical Mass settings are rare. So, it’s notable that a new musical Mass was commissioned and premiered at a Mass celebrated by Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone in San Francisco last December. For this article, I interviewed by email the respected Bay Area traditional sacred music … [Read More...]
Simone Weil at Solesmes
Simone Weil was a woman of many afflictions. She was born a Jew in pre-World War 2 Europe with chronically poor health, eventually dying young of tuberculosis in an English sanatorium. She also seems to have had persistent bouts of anxiety. Weil was philosophically trained, a sensitive thinker, and … [Read More...]
On Reading Flannery to My Baby
Guest post by Casie Dodd. In some ways, looking back at my rigidly Baptist and unequivocally Protestant background, it is no longer surprising that I was meant to be Catholic. However, it still took a long time for me to be okay with it. After a long process of giving up an evangelical past … [Read More...]
The Wound That Heals Us
Guest post by LeighAnna Schesser. Flannery O’Connor’s short stories are, with justice, frequently held up as an archetype of Catholic fiction: her narratives get down deep in the nastiness of the sin-dulled human spirit and record the violence that sweeps through it in the wake of the passing of … [Read More...]
The Function of Literature
Guest post by Peter Moccia. One of my greatest pleasures in life is reading. Perhaps a close second (although it is ultimately not separate from the first) is discussing books with other people. As such, when chatting with friends or even acquaintances for long enough, more often than not the … [Read More...]
