Pilgrim Music
Modern masters of lust scream and shout their rock songs, but medieval peasants sing of beauty, salvation, and death to their mother.
Why I Fish for Fickle, Freckled Things
Fishing is an adrenalin-boosting hunt, a breath of fresh air, excitement mixed with relaxation, a time for wonder and solitude and meditation, and, sometimes, a time for camaraderie.
Five Ways to Stop Modernity From Ravaging Your Mind
What practical steps can we take to stop modernity from ravaging our minds via the internet and the reality distortion that comes with it?
Do to Your Wife As You Would Have Your Bishop Do to You
A false dichotomy is created in the Church by setting fidelity to theology and liturgy against fidelity to an obedience that is not in harmony with them.
The Power of Theme Songs
Throughout music history, popular tunes have formed the basis of arrangements, fantasias, and variation suites.
Renaissance Jazz: Grooving in Style
Improvisation is one of Jazz’s distinctive features. One of the more recently recovered practices of Renaissance music, however, is also improvisation.
The Surprising Life and Music of Catholic Composer Anton Bruckner
Austrian composer Anton Bruckner, a devout Catholic, was something of an odd man, but the beauty of his innovative and monumental sacred music deserves to be unpacked and considered by Catholics today.
The Silence of Friendship
The silence of old friendship; a common trope in literature, perhaps a trite cliché. But do we ever practice it?
Drying Your Eyes With the Melancholy Music of Other Ages
In an era of unhealthy melancholy and depression, I would suggest mending our melancholy moods with the melancholy of other, more musically-healthy times.
800-Year-Old Music Honoring St. Anthony of Padua
Highly venerated from the first, many works of art have had St. Anthony as their subject, from plastic garden statues to paintings by El Greco and Raphael. He has also been honored in music.
Singing in Tongues: Thomas Tallis’ Pentecost Masterpiece
The language of beauty continues to preach the truth of Catholicism to all nations; because of that, we ought to see composers like Tallis as contributing to the Church’s continued charism of evangelism.
Glimmering Hope in the Night of Postmodernity: Exploring the Music of Arvo Pärt
Any Catholic interested in a revival of the arts and questions relating to their place and expression in the face of modernity should discover Arvo Pärt.
Eight Activities of the Renaissance Woman
What are good activities which women have always done and which seem closely tied to being a fulfilled and feminine woman?
Hilaire Belloc’s List of Eight Manly Activities
Hilaire Belloc described a handful of activities which modern industrial and urban life has all too often endangered or made extinct, but should be recovered by today’s Catholic men.
On the Legitimacy of “Parish Tasting”
Is it okay to engage in “parish tasting?” Or should we stick with our local parish, no matter what?
Feminized Faith, Failed Families, and Fertile Fields
Hope-filled in its conclusion, a new book offers the Catholic community a fresh look at current issues, addressing them with scholarly and thoughtful argumentation, and peaceful and commonsense rhetoric.
“In the Land of Promise”: An Encounter with a Pro-Life Painting
A relatively obscure painting speaks to the Pro-Life movement, to the shifting sands of familial ideologies, and to the necessity of loving the simple and domestic realities of life.