Arts & Culture
Understanding Czesław Miłosz
Eva Hoffman, a fellow exile from Poland, writes about the Nobel-winning author like no one else could.
Praying the hours with W. H. Auden
The poet’s Horae Canonicae sequence is an underappreciated spiritual classic.
Feeling God in a modernist cathedral-in-progress
While other churches have filled me with wonder, Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia brought tears to my eyes.
Babes revives the adult comedy
It recalls the raunchy movies of the early 2000s—even as it offers a fresh vision of what it means to grow up.
Genius and virtue
Wildcat is less a biopic than a luminous exploration of the tension in Flannery O’Connor’s artistic and spiritual life.
The post-Catholic Joyce
Filtered through my deconstructed Catholic faith, Ulysses holds up surprisingly well.
Juneberry Primer
As a girl, I’d pronounce compote like coyote. Clafoutis rhymed with clematis or stephanotis ...
A crushing lack of humanity
Both Apple’s “Crush” ad and Catholic Answers’ AI priest alarmed people. There’s some hope in that reaction.
imagine eating a fruit
so sweet it revealed
your own skin to you.
why say we did wrong?
guilt’s just a melody,
a comet, a dry tin bucket....
