Such a Waste!
Dr. Mitchell Kalpakgian in his article, The Destruction of Childhood from Truth and Charity Forum, provides an overview of the ways that children are under attack and the techniques used to turn a child...
Tagged: Beauty
Who Is in It for the Beauty?
St. Agnes What happens when most of civilization forgets that our purpose is to know, love, and serve God? Everything becomes focused on money, as explained in “Lost Dreams” on Resource Crisis. Pick a...
When the Poor See Beauty
Pope St. Martin Are material needs the only concern of the poor? Do only rich people need beauty? An architecture professor at Notre Dame considers what the poor need in Catholic church design, in...
Beloved by God
St. Francis Borgia In “Seeing Through the Eyes of Love,” on Carrots for Michaelmas, a mama reveals her feelings at seeing her 3-year-old dance on parents’ day at the ballet studio and compares it...
To Serve our Redeemer in the Most Fitting Way
Our Lady of the Rosary The interior has no clothes? This post on the Ad Imaginem Dei blog discusses the iconoclasm of the post-Vatican II era and tries to define why beauty in church...
The Consequences of a Darkened Intellect
St. Januarius Using many examples from St. Augustine, Dr. Mitchell Kalpakgian shows how we can fall into what he describes as “fornication of the mind”, in this essay for Truth and Charity Forum, “The...
News Roundup: October 2, 2013
While we grappled with the un-Catholic statements Francis made in the La Repubblica interview yesterday, the Vatican Bank quietly released its first-ever annual report, revealing it quadrupled its earnings in 2012, according to this...
The Beautiful Things, Episode 1: On Art
In this inaugural episode of The Beautiful Things we consider various perspectives on the arts. Topics of discussion range from Kant to Aquinas, and attempt to address the question of how Catholics should, or...
