March/April 2019 - Faith & Fairy Stories Sample Content from Our Latest Issue March/April 2019 Table of Contents Sample Article Faith, Fact, and Fairy Tale - William Randall Lancaster If a paradox is a seeming self-contradiction that is actually true, what, then, might we call a seeming truth that is really a self-contradiction? What might we call a [...]
January/February 2019 - Ernest Hemingway & Graham Greene: Prodigal Sons of the Church Sample Content from Our Latest Issue January/February 2019 Table of Contents Sample Article Hemingway’s Catholic Heart - Mary Claire Kendall "Born as the Victorian era was breathing its last, Ernest Hemingway initially only knew the Protestant world of Oak Park where he grew up, not [...]
November/December 2018: Solzhenitsyn 1918-2018: A Centenary Celebration Sample Content from Our Latest Issue November/December 2018 Table of Contents Sample Article In the Camps: Dostoyevsky and Solzhenitsyn - Lee Congdon It should come as no surprise that the spiritual awakening of both Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn occurred during their years of penal servitude. There were major differences between [...]
September/October 2018 Edition of the Saint Austin Review: The Feminine Genius of Jane Austen
July/August 2018: Gerard Manley Hopkins & the Grandeur of God Sample Content from Our Latest Issue July/August 2018 Table of Contents Sample Article Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Blessed Virgin Mary - Bernadette Waterman Ward The first time the poet Gerard Manley mentions the Blessed Virgin Mary is in a letter to his father, who is dismayed that [...]
May/June 2018: American Literature & Catholic Faith Sample Content from Our Latest Issue May/June 2018 Table of Contents Sample Article Orestes Brownson on the Natural Aristocracy - Geoffrey M. Vaughan In 1813, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams engaged in a correspondence on the topic of the natural aristocracy in America. These two political enemies reconciled over the question [...]
March/April 2018: Misfits & Mystics: Flannery O'Connor and Friends Sample Content from Our Latest Issue March/April 2018 Table of Contents Sample Article Grace and the Grotesque: Redemption in the Southern Literature of Flannery O’Connor - Veronica A. Arntz To our softened, modern sensibilities, the stories of Flannery O’Connor are shocking. They are seemingly dark with despair, fraught with the [...]
January/February 2018: True Love: Passionate Reason Versus Romantic Feelings Sample Content from Our Latest Issue January/February 2018 Table of Contents Sample Article Anna Karenina: A Story of Untrue Love- Mary Leonarczyk Recently, with the 2012 movie adaptation of Anna Karenina having been released, there has been an increasing interest in Leo Tolstoy’s classic Russian novel of doomed romance. [...]
November/December 2017: Faith and Physics: Fr. LeMaître and the Big Bang Sample Content from Our Latest Issue November/December 2017 Table of Contents Sample Article Father Georges LeMaître: Introduction to a Great Priest-Cosmologist - John Beaumont In 2015 I was privileged to be able to contribute to a special issue of StAR devoted to the late and [...]
September/October 2017: The Faith & the South Sample Content from Our Latest Issue September/October 2017 2017 Table of Contents Sample Article Southern Catholics and Protestant Bias: Bishop John England’s 1839 Debate with Rev. Richard Fuller - Adam Tate During every election season, articles appear discussing confirmation bias, pointing out that most people read news stories in ways that confirm [...]