Catholic Arts
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All Things Made New by Stratford Caldecott (Review)
Stratford Caldecott’s All Things Made New serves to wonderfully restore symbolism and numerological correspondences to the Catholic imagination.
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The White Cockade by Charles A. Coulombe (Review)
For reasons that should shortly become clear, the term ‘Book Review’ may be a misnomer here. 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 a…
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Ingres and Catholic France
Ingres: that great French painter from the time and place that so clutches at my heart: Nineteenth Century Catholic France! The Nineteenth Century. It is not so long ago. My grandfather was born in the Nineteenth Century. He even saw the Queen: Victoria, Monarch of the British Empire upon “which the sun never set” ……
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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
(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.) To my mind, such images can play a truly healing role in our troubled society. Why? There are two reasons at least. The first is to do with…
Foreword for Monarchy by Roger Buck
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