Table of Contents

Feature

A Fire-Stained Cathedral Gargoyle: Leon Bloy and the Catholic Literary Tradition Joshua Hren

Fiction

The Light James Winter
The Bridal Price Em Liu

Poetry

Angel of the Spandrel Michael Bradburn-Ruster
Because They Have Forsaken Michael Bradburn-Ruster
A Garden Regained Michael Bradburn-Ruster
La Prière Michael Bradburn-Ruster
Monastery Michael Bradburn-Ruster
In Mourning Andrew Calis
In Blinding Light Andrew Calis
The splash of rain came first Andrew Calis
Again, Mother Caroline Holme
At the Sink Caroline Holme
Peter Troy Reeves
Alchemy Hannah Marshall
Orpah, Running Free Hannah Marshall
Siberian Squill Hannah Marshall
Sokugo Tolu Oloruntoba
Shadow Government Tolu Oloruntoba
Graffiti Paradise Tolu Oloruntoba
Sparrow.eye.storm Tolu Oloruntoba

Nonfiction

Introducing a Modern Master Bernardo Aparicio García
Advent, Suffering, and Sandy Hook Jessica Cusato

Book Reviews

Praise the Lord from the Earth: A Review of Kingdom review by Michael Cadnum J.B. Toner
The Sacred and the Profane: A Review of The Hanging God by James Matthew Wilson by Mike Aquilina
How the Spirits Tell Their Stories: A Review of Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders by C.J. Karnas-Haines
A Review of Into the Deep: An Unlikely Catholic Conversion by Abigail Rine Favale Joshua Hren

Visual Art

Giovanni Gasparro graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome in 2007, as a pupil of the painter Giuseppe Modica, with a thesis in art history on the Roman stay of Van Dyck. His first solo exhibition took place in Paris is in 2009, and in 2011, the Archdiocese of L’Aquila commissioned him to do nineteen works of art between altar and altarpiece for the thirteenth century Basilica of San Giuseppe Artigiano, damaged by the earthquake of 2009, which constitute the largest painting cycle of sacred art made in recent years. In 2013 he won the Bioethics Art Competition of UNESCO’s Bioethics and Human Rights Chair with Casti Connubii, a work inspired by Pope Pius XI’s 1930 encyclical. He exhibited at the 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, curated by Vittorio Sgarbi and at the National Gallery of Cosenza in comparison with Mattia Preti, the Pinacoteca Nazionale of Bologna, the Palazzo Venezia in Rome, the Alinari Museum of Florence, the Napoleonic Museum of Rome, and the Grand Palais of Paris, among many other venues.