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“But now,” declared Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles, “we have to prove the connection between the man and the beast.” Holmes referred, of course, to connecting a hound and a man, but his statement also sums up a general human fascination with finding mythical beings. In particular, humans have a yearning to find [...]
This old dictum can be deceptively simple, rather like “Home is where the heart is.” When I first considered becoming Catholic in 1984, I went to the local church, only a block or two from my apartment in New Orleans, and talked to a very young priest, whom I’ll call Father Francis. He was fresh out [...]
In the last chapter of The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien described Bilbo Baggins returning home to the Shire after an absence of more than a year, only to find he had arrived in time to see his possessions being sold at auction because he had been presumed dead. Bilbo buys back most of his property, [...]
Why do we insist on calling Romeo & Juliet a romance and not a tragedy? Here's the answer: https://www.faithandculture.com/home/2019/3/13/o-romeo-romeo-wherefore-art-thou-such-a-cad-why-do-we-insist-that-this-tragedy-is-a-romance
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 [...]
Once upon a time there was a type of music [sic] called the avant garde but it didn't live happily ever after. In fact, it didn't live for very long at all. Whether or not it could ever be considered alive, there is no doubt that it is now dead, except in the academy, which is the same thing. For [...]
In 1925 silent film star Buster Keaton, his wife, and their two sons moved into a new house just off Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California. Dubbed the Italian Villa, it sat on three and a half acres, and for Keaton’s wife, glamorous Natalie Talmadge, it was an ideal setting for lavish Hollywood parties. For Keaton [...]
Faith & Culture has published my call for action with regard to the duty of all of us to support the Catholic arts, and Catholic artists, writers and musicians.