A Journal of Catholic Experience

Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-1890) has called the most joyful day of the Christian calendar, Easter Sunday, "the child of sorrow." This season, we highlight the great English preacher's meditations on Ecclesiastes 3:4, in Sermon 23 of the Parochial and Plain Sermons:

Keeping Fast and Festival »

 

Featured artwork: Matin de Pâques (c. 1891-3) by Maurice Denis. Copyright © Artist Rights Society (ARS). Photo credit Scala/Art Resource, NY.

 

PLACES WE'VE BEEN

The Hundredfold

By Patricia Snow

 

A Crossroads in Middletown, Rhode Island

By Ronald Distajo

 

Gown in the Town

By Christian Huebner

 

 

STORY AND SONG

Retreat

A story by Dena Hunt

 

Feast/Fast

Poetry by Daniel Janeiro

 

Three Loves

Poetry by Ann Applegarth

 

Discovering Middlemarch

By Lilian R. Josefski

 

 

 

FROM OUR ARCHIVES

Advent/Christmas 2010

Our full inaugural issue is currently available online.

 

 

 

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LENT/EASTER 2011

Organic Sex, Organic Farming

Christopher Killheffer argues that "hippie farmers and diehard, 'rhythm method' Catholics" have more in common than many realize.

 

 

Masonry and Modernity

Andy Smith considers one American stonemason's struggle to live in a world impatient with his craft and his yearnings for transcendence.

 

 

Art, Death, and Resurrection

An essay from the editor's desk, prompted by Maurice Denis's painting, "Matin de Pâques."

 

 

MADE BY OUR HANDS

purgatorioPurgatorio

By Caroline Swinehart

 

 

 

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By Bronwen McShea

 

 

 

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