Friday Links, January 15, 2021
Poetry, Art History, Homeless Benefit, a New Press
Friday Links, January 8, 2021
New publications, contests to enter, exquisite art calligraphy to enjoy . . . Happy New Year from Revolution of Tenderness We invite all we meet to an ongoing exploration of the connections between faith, culture, and life. The Borromean rings in our logo are a sign of unity in diversity, and … [Read More...]
A language deeper than culture
I never expected to meet Mike Finnegan again. That name belonged to a character from the annals of my long-ago childhood, dim and yet vaguely pleasant. Mike was part of my brother’s posse; that nameless rabble of 8th grade boys who move as one through life, jostling and scuffling as they go. They … [Read More...]
A Clerk’s Office
A little over a hundred years ago, in October of 1918, my great-grandfather walked into a clerk’s office in West Virginia and received his citizenship, reflected in a certificate signed by court clerks A.J. Harrison and S.G. Barrett. In my mind’s eye, it is a warm October day. The clerk’s office in … [Read More...]
Friday Links, January 1, 2021
On the Seventh Day of Christmas, Anno Domino 2021 The Strangeness of the Good: A Poet and an Archbishop Speak The Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship is sponsoring this free online event featuring Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone and James Matthew Wilson—with readings from … [Read More...]
Portrait of a Paralyzed Priesthood: James Joyce’s “The Sisters”
Joshua Hren Graphic stories, given by so many victims of Catholic priests and made explicit in (for instance) the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report, leave the listener transfixed in terror over how one person could be so broad—in persona Christi and unspeakably perverted—at once. Still more … [Read More...]
