Catholic Exchange

Should an artist copy from photographs?

• The Way of Beauty
• Friday, May 11th, 2012
• David Clayton

Does the means invalidate the end? Shortly after moving the US I was contacted by someone I knew when I was studying if Florence. When I was in Florence Martinho Correia had been teaching the academic method at one of the ateliers in Florence. He contacted me because he had just converted to Catholicism and was keen to tell me about it. It was good to hear from him, especially with such good news! More recently Martinho told me about a two-week course he was

SHORT FEATURE: REVERSE PARTHENOGENESIS

• B-Movie Catechism
• Friday, May 11th, 2012
• David

So, why has the Catholic Church teamed up with NeoStem, Inc. to promote adult stem cell research? Why does the Vatican continue to operate one of the oldest astronomical research institutions in the world? And why was the Pontifical Academy… Read More

How to Compose Sacred Music that is New but Conforms to Tradition by Paul Jernberg

• The Way of Beauty
• Friday, May 11th, 2012
• David Clayton

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A composer tells us his approach in composing works that are fresh and new, while reflecting the timeless principles that constitute sacred music. Listen also to his beautiful newly composed Mass. 
The following is an essay written by the composer… Read More

NOT MOM ENOUGH!

• Her Ladyship
• Thursday, May 10th, 2012
• Marisa Pereira

Well, Time magazine succeeded in getting its name out at the forefront of peoples’ minds again – after noticing a continuing downward trend in sales the last few years. They accomplished this by publishing a magazine with a cover picture… Read More

Introducing High Concepts

• Crafting Culture
• Thursday, May 10th, 2012
• Daniel McInerny

I’m very pleased to announce today the release of my first novel for adults, High Concepts: A Hollywood Nightmare. It’s a dark comic spin on the age-old premise of a philosopher who goes to Hollywood and overnight becomes the film… Read More

Liturgy, Anthropology, Economics and Work

• The Way of Beauty
• Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
• David Clayton

It seems at first an unlikely connection but it is made directly in a book called the Wellspring of Worship, by Jean Corbon. I read it because I heard Scott Hahn recommend it recently. It was Hahn’s excellent book the Lamb’s Supper which first made clear to me how the Book of Revelation relates the heavenly and earthly liturgy to each other and first opened the door to a sense of the cosmic dimension of the liturgy upon which so much of

WEEKLY NEWSREEL – 3 1/2 TIME-OUTS TUESDAY (VOL. 23)

• B-Movie Catechism
• Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
• David

Good evening Mr. & Mrs. Catholic, and all you other Christians at sea. After a brief hiatus, the theater doors are open once again. We’ll kick things off with another Weekly Newsreel, sponsored as usual by the fine folks at… Read More

Overpopulation, anti-humanism, and Cheng Guangcheng

• Sheila Reports
• Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
• Sheila Liaugminas

The Obama administration was involved at the highest levels of diplomacy with China last week to negotiate a deal over the fate of a human rights activist targeted by the Chinese government because he exposed so much abuse tied to… Read More

On Being Cheerful in the Face of Stupid-Heads

• Young and Catholic
• Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
• Mary Lane

Ok, so “stupid-head” may not be the most charitable descriptor, but the point is: sometimes other people say or do things that hurt us or, at the very least, make us angry.
Of course, we have all heard that the… Read More

In Defence (Again) of Penny Dreadfuls

• Crafting Culture
• Monday, May 7th, 2012
• Daniel McInerny

One of the strangest examples of the degree to which ordinary life is undervalued is the example of popular literature, the vast mass of which we contentedly describe as vulgar. The boy’s novelette may be ignorant in a literary sense,… Read More