Charlotte Allen

Review: The Mary Pages by Sally Read

Sally Read, born in East Anglia in 1971 and now living near Rome, was a secular poet before she was a Catholic...

Dana Gioia: Songwriter

On June 20, 2023, Fiat Lux, an oratorio-like liturgical work for singers and orchestra by the Scottish Catholic composer James MacMillan, world-premiered...

Dante in Indiana-and in D.C.

There couldn’t be a work of literature more “medieval” than Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. It’s suffused with the scholastic philosophy of the...

Praying the O Antiphons

            Some parts of the Christian liturgy are so ancient that we just assume they grew organically all by themselves, like plants....

“Simple, Profound, and Based on the Sonic Structure of the Universe” composer Xanthe Kraft

Xanthe Kraft is a 28-year-old composer of sacred music. Her Speravit Anima Mea, a setting of Psalm 129 for violin and two...

“Are We Not Interested in the Cosmos Anymore?” James Matthew Wilson, Katy Carl, Glenn Arbery and More: A Contemplative Realism Symposium

In February 2022 the Benedict XVI Institute published Joshua Hren’s Contemplative Realism: A Theological-Aesthetical Manifesto, by Joshua Hren, founder of Wiseblood...

The Martyrs of Communism

On June 26, 1941, in Soviet Ukraine, Father Mykola Konrad headed toward the forest outside the tiny village of Stradch to hear...

Archbishop Cordileone’s New Renaissance in Sacred Music

As my mother was dying this past October—and at age 100 and fading, she was obviously not going to be with us...

Scoring Mass of the Ages: An Interview with Mark Nowakowski

Mass of the Ages, Catholic filmmaker Cameron O’Hearn’s documentary about the astonishing revival of the traditional Latin Mass among Catholics of all...

Little Li: The Child Martyr of the Eucharist in China

  She was a little Chinese Catholic girl, in a country where Catholics were and are only a demographic drop in the...

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