Tag Archives: Catholic Arts

Book Review: All Things Made New – Stratford Caldecott

Stratford Caldecott’s All Things Made New serves to wonderfully restore symbolism and numerological correspondences to the Catholic imagination.

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Book Review: The White Cockade by Charles A. Coulombe

For reasons that should shortly become clear, the term “Book Review” may be a misnomer here. But first, let me just say that what we have to do with here, is a reprint of a very slim volume of poems by Charles A. Coulombe, written in his youth, back in the 1980′s. Also included is [...]

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Book Review: Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene

For centuries now, our world has been increasingly filled by purely humanistic culture. And the majority of what we regard as great literature turns on very worldly themes. In the novels of Jane Austen or E. M. Forster for instance, we do not have profound explorations of Divine Grace in our lives, nor matters of [...]

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Imaging the Sacred

(Illustration by Ariel Agemian. Note: It is only since and through publishing this picture that I discovered the identity of this wonderful artist. For more, please see discussion in comments below.) I was happy to discover this old image of the Mystery of Ordination on the web. And I am doubly happy to republish it [...]

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DVD Review: Circle of Friends

A Flawed, Fond and Important Evocation of Catholic Ireland

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Book Review: The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene

Heartbreaking, beautiful Catholic Masterpiece

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Book Review: Ugly As Sin: Why They Changed Our Churches from Sacred Places to Meeting Spaces – Michael S. Rose

A powerful and accessible account of how Catholic Churches are succumbing to ugliness.

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Book Review: The Portal of the Mystery of Hope – Charles Péguy

A genuine classic, heartbreakingly beautiful.

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