“We think of poems and solitary things, and yet they reside within us — quiet compasses of right orientation. In prayer, especially, they are knowing and comfortable friends.”
World Poetry Day: Poems as prayer in different form
Late Pope Benedict’s Christian insights resonate at 2023 New York Encounter
This year’s encounter combined a warm appreciation of the late Pope Benedict XVI with an exhibit explaining 19th-century German philosopher and polemicist Friedrich Nietzsche.
Author explores literature from Homer to Tolkien
Starting with the ancients and leaving off in the mid-20th century, the author aims to whet your appetite with short introductions to the tales his book’s subtitle claims that “every Catholic should know.”
Writer’s Southern roots inspire ‘radical faith’ element to her fiction
Valerie Sayers’ most recent work, “The Powers,” takes the reader to New York City in the summer of 1941, as Americans followed not only Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak, but also the dire developments in Europe that would eventually drag the country into World War II.
Toni Morrison, author baptized Catholic as child, dies at age 88
Morrison received the National Humanities Medal in 2000 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.