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Author: Charlotte Allen

Music

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 at Christ Cathedral

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Novels and Stories

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 late Middle Ages,

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Sacred Beauties

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. But in fact,

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