My Burden Light: Poem
—after François Mauriac If you wish to resist the cross of Christ Don’t you dare dream up a casual affair. Follow Rimbaud. Pulled hair, soul
—after François Mauriac If you wish to resist the cross of Christ Don’t you dare dream up a casual affair. Follow Rimbaud. Pulled hair, soul
In February 2022 the Benedict XVI Institute published Joshua Hren’s Contemplative Realism: A Theological-Aesthetical Manifesto, by Joshua Hren, founder of Wiseblood Books, co-founder of
Flannery O’Connor; Walker Percy; J.F. Powers: young Catholic novelists may dream of joining the pantheon of 20th century greats, openly Catholic, yet acknowledged by the
In a recent essay Joseph Bottum pins the novel’s decline less on screens and social media than on metaphysical flatness. Much contemporary fiction either inhabits
But Jesus said to them: “Suffer the little children, and forbid them not to come to me: for the kingdom of heaven is for such.”