“Mass of the Americas” and the Flourishing of Religious Culture
Interview with Composer Frank La Rocca
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...]
The novel that influenced Waugh
After the Great War, writers began grappling with the reality of a Europe that had been torn to pieces, leaving a gaping, shell-shocked hole in the veneer that had for centuries been stretched over the bones of what turned out to be a rotting structure. The dream of Christendom was dead – it had … [Read More...]
The Ghost Keeper by Natalie Morrill
The Ghost Keeper by Natalie Morrill Review by Simcha Fisher HarperCollins Canada, 2018 $22.99 (CAD); 368 pp Chapter 5 of Natalie Morrill’s The Ghost Keeper made me set the book down almost in holy fear. In a few brutal pages, the central plot point is laid bare. You don’t realize, until … [Read More...]
The Indomitable Nuns of the French Revolution
If it’s true, as the philosophers say, that eternity is the experience of all time at once, then surely writing about history is one way to practice for heaven. I’ve seemingly lived a good chunk of my recent life in the eighteenth century, and I can now expound upon everything from the process of … [Read More...]
