Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
Love & Friendship (2016) Written and Directed by Whit Stillman Based on Jane Austen’s Lady Susan Whit Stillman’s partiality for Jane Austen is obvious in his first film, Metropolitan, and close to the surface in Damsels in Distress.[1] In Love & Friendship he moves directly to Austen in an adaptation of her epistolary novel Lady Susan,[…]
(Saint Thomas More was put to death on July 6th, even though we celebrate his feast on June 22nd, the day when his compatriot and contemporary, Saint John Fisher, had his head removed for his faith. Both Fisher and More represent a merrier and more moral England, the seeds of whose demise were sown by[…]
The following review was written by Father Callam for an anthology, and is re-posted here, signifying Hollywood’s continued fascination with the image of the Catholic priest. They always somehow distort, even mock and belittle, that image, but something essential also always remains, and the hold the priest has over our imagination speaks volumes. At least[…]
Jonathan Robinson, The Mass and Modernity: Walking to Heaven Backwards. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2005. (First published in the Chesterton Review) When I mentioned Father Robinson’s latest book to a learned friend, he said, “Robinson . . . he wrote a good book on Hegel.” I can believe it. Although I haven’t read that book,[…]
It is unusual to encounter newly-written sacred music that appeals to traditional hymnodic taste; perhaps it is unsurprising that when such music does appear, it frequently comes from young composers. In any event, following a generation’s worth of sentimental worship songs, the recently-published New Catholic Hymns: 24 Hymns for the Liturgical Year is a traditional[…]
The death of Christopher Tolkien as a nonagenarian ends a legacy, for it was this youngest son of the great J.R.R. that took – pardonnez le pun – good care of his father’s inimitable work. And imitated it has been, many, many times over, all to paler effect. For unlike the fantasy genre to which[…]
“This is not a ‘religious service’ or a scripture class; this is Heaven on Earth: it is where our God comes to us.” The Extraordinary Form of the Mass or the Latin Mass is the Tridentine Mass. Promulgated by Pope Pius V in 1570, the Holy Mass was a reform of the Council of Trent[…]
(This analysis of Alfred Hitchock’s film noir classic ‘I Confess’ offers some key insights, but, as a caveat, also gives away elements of the plot. So spoiler alert, if you have not yet seen it. Perhaps best to give it a viewing, then read on, Macduff). Editor Alfred Hitchcock’s I Confess (1953) is best known[…]
August Turak has written a delightful little book – and by ‘little’, I mean the term in a way similar to Christ’s usage of the term, humble, simple, without much in the way of guile and pretence. The story is an illustrated version of an essay, for which Turak won the much-esteemed Templeton Prize in[…]
When I was a child, I thought like a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things… These words of Saint Paul haunt me, for I still enjoy a number of ‘childish’ things, which may in one sense be defined as ‘mentally numbing’ for an adult, like watching Teletubbies or Sesame[…]
