St. Austin Review: Reclaiming Culture

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Enjoy the ponderings of the Star's contributors and add your own thoughts. As this section develops, we hope it may become a medium for an exchange of ideas among those who are working towards the cultural revival.

• November 12th, 2010A Jewel In Our Lady’s Crownby Joseph Pearce

  I must recommend this new five minute video produced by the music department of Ave Maria University. It illustrates all that is best in a tradition-oriented liberal arts education. Tim McDonnell, Susan Treacy and Lynn Kraeling have developed this department so that it is not merely a jewel in the crown of Ave Maria University but a small but beautiful jewel in the crown to the Blessed Mother herself. Watch, listen, and levitate!

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5_yIbt0RKg

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• November 12th, 2010The Philosophy of Acting starring Con Artists, co-starring New Age Pickpocketsby Kevin O'Brien

  So, Lord, I’m supposed to do this? I’m really supposed to write some sort of Philosophy of Acting?

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• November 12th, 2010The Death of Dramaby Kevin O'Brien

  John C. Wright has written several posts lately beginning with this one ( http://www.scifiwright.com/2010/11/superman-and-dehumanity-part-i/ ) in which he, among other things, claims that post-modernist drama is an oxymoron, that drama can not be an art form for a post-modernist: no dehumanizing thinker can create dramatic art.

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• November 9th, 2010Woman, Lovely Womanby Sophia Mason

  A great many woes have been laid at the doorstep of feminism, but one of the saddest must be the attitude it fosters—mostly among conservative men—: I mean the attitude that women really are inferior, if not in intellect, then at least in temper.

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• November 9th, 2010“It’s Too Good to Be True!”by Lorraine V. Murray

  Some things seem too good to be true. When you fall in love and the person returns your affection – that's definitely one of those things. Or maybe you win a great prize and that is your first reaction: Why it’s too good to be true!

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• November 8th, 2010Warsaw and Moscow: Poles apart?by Ferdi McDermott

  A number of years ago I visited Poland and stayed in a special hotel attached to the parliament, as a guest of one of the deputies.

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• November 5th, 2010The Way of Beauty on Catholic TVby Joseph Pearce

  David Clayton, artist in residence at Thomas More College in New Hampshire, is presenting a new series on Catholic TV. “The Way of Beauty” explores the beauty of truth through the power of art. Here’s a link to a short promotional video about the series. It’s clearly not to be missed!

  http://www.catholictv.com/shows/default.aspx?videoID=1590

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• November 4th, 2010Lessons About Love from An Old Stuffed Dogby Lorraine V. Murray

  There are very few things left from my childhood. No favorite books, no trinkets, no furniture. Just an old stuffed Pluto dog, a la the Disney comics, whom I named Poppa.

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• November 3rd, 2010The Roman Catholic Arts Reviewby Joseph Pearce

  Visitors to this site will be excited to learn of the launch of a new Catholic cultural journal, The Roman Catholic Arts Review. 

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• November 3rd, 2010Voting with Our Walletsby Joseph Pearce

  As the dust settles on another election, it might be worth reminding ourselves that we are called to vote every day of our lives with every dollar that we spend. 

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• November 3rd, 2010Speaking Engagements in Novemberby Joseph Pearce

  I have three speaking engagements this month, all in South West Florida:

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• November 3rd, 2010Speaking Engagement on Marco Islandby Joseph Pearce

  Herewith the text of the notice of my upcoming speaking engagement on Marco Island in Florida. Anyone in the area is welcome to attend:

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• November 3rd, 2010KOLYMAby Pavel Chichikov

  I used to work with a guy who came from Magadan. He was short and strong and had a loud voice. People were intimidated by him for more reasons than his loud volume and aggressive manner.

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• November 3rd, 2010Deadly Sins: The Orthodoxy of Macbethby Joseph Pearce

  A few days ago I was interviewed by Al Kresta for his live talk show on Ave Maria Radio. Our topic was the Catholicism of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, not the Catholicism of the character (obviously!) but of the play. Here’s a link to the interview: http://avemariaradio.net/archiveListen.php?file=kpm_20101022_2

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• November 3rd, 2010A Talk on the Wilde Sideby Joseph Pearce

  I have just responded to some questions from a high school student for her project on Oscar Wilde. I thought visitors to this site might be interested in reading the interview.

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• November 3rd, 2010The Cranes of Autumnby Jef Murray

  We are sitting on the back deck when we hear their call: strange, stricken, somewhat strangled. Dusk is falling and no birds should be out, but these are; and they are flying fast just above the treetops.

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• November 1st, 2010Comedy and the Devilby Kevin O'Brien

  My first hint was the fact that they were opposed to Halloween.  Foolishly, I ignored this until he sat down before me with a kind of stolid contempt.

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• November 1st, 2010Courageby Pavel Chichikov

  I’ve just received an email from a friend I’ve never met. That’s possible these days because we can have friends all over the world we will never see in “real space”, but who are nevertheless real friends. Sometimes they and I exchange gifts, confidences and prayers.

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• November 1st, 2010Sagrada Familia in Dangerby Dena Hunt

  This was written last July…but never posted. It contains a BBC interview with the architect. Now, here it is almost November and the architect’s concerns were never addressed. Update: the wall of the tunnel is only 75 cm from the support wall of the church, and the Spanish government says they “cleared it with the United Nations.” Huh?

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• October 28th, 2010Moscow Churchesby Pavel Chichikov

  The new Mayor of Moscow has ordered the city to find 200 plots of land for the building of Orthodox churches. This is, of course, a great departure from the Moscow that anyone living in the Soviet Union had known, except for the very old. But Russia is now at least partly Orthodox and Christian. I learned the other day that even Russian paratroopers have their own patron saint, St. Elijah.

  
  
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