Victoria’s Regina Coeli
A truly sublime rendition of the Regina Caeli Laetare, by Tomas Luis De Victoria (1548-1611), as sung by the ensemble Voces8. This work was...
The Twilight of American Enlightenment
The average age of North Americans is forty-one; this means that most people have no personal recollection of the decade of the 1950s, the...
12 Years a Slave
12 Years a Slave is a powerful film based on the memoir by Solomon Northup published in 1853. The film has won 134 awards since...
Nebraska: A Review
Nebraska (2013)
Written by Bob Nelson
Directed by Alexander Payne
A society which has lost its religion becomes sooner or later a society which has lost its...
Three Books from a Canadian Author
Up-and-coming author Ben Galeski has written three novels thus far, two of them published by Justin Press, and the third about to be. They...
Te Deum Laudamus!
The Te Deum is an ancient song of praise to God and all His saints, that may go back as far as Saint Ambrose...
Echoes of Ronald Knox and C.S. Lewis
Some years ago I wrote rather a long winded play, Shaw vs Chesterton, an imaginary debate between two great friends, G.K. Chesterton and Bernard...
Bound by a Seal: A Movie Review of “I Confess”
Year: 1953
Filming: Black & White
Length: 95 minutes
Genre: Drama/Inspirational/Religious/Suspense
Maturity: PG (for intense thematic elements)
Cast: Montgomery Clift (Fr. Michael Logan), Anne Baxter (Ruth Grandfort), O.E. Hass...
Musical Offering: Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending!
Say what you like about the early Methodists, but they could write some melodious hymns, and one of the greatest and most prolific is...
Bach’s ‘With Joy and Peace I Depart’
In 1725, on this feast of the Presentation/Candlemas/Purification, J.S. Bach first presented his cantata Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin - With Joy...
