Luke, Kiara and Victoria explore W.B. Yeats’ Adam’s Curse, discussing the unusual structure of the poem and its commentary on beauty, whether beauty will truly fade away with time, and if effort in human works is a result of the Fall.
Luke, Kiara and Victoria discuss The Princess and the Goblin; exploring the presentation of God’s Grace in the lives of two children, and how a great-great grandmother teaches us about the Virgin Mary and true femininity.
Fr Robert Barron explains how the film “Calvary” successfully portrays the priest as an “alter Christus”. Warning, spoilers follow.
Luke and Kiara “fly duo” with The Wife of Bath’s Tale; discovering how the medievals were the opposite of prudish, how Chaucer may have satirised the philosophical view of women in his time, + more
In this review of the recent sci-fi film “The Giver”, Fr Robert Barron explores how the film offers a good reflection and critique of our society’s post-Christian trajectory.
Luke, Kiara and Victoria dive in to The Communist Manifesto; exploring how the document fails in its understanding of the human person, whether having wealth is inherently evil, and whether trade unions can be a force for good.
Luke, Kiara and Victoria discuss how Fitzgerald’s narrative style highlights two complementary ways in which we can know people, how the Catholicism he rejected continued to influence his work + more…
Popular film director Woody Allen recently spoke about his belief that we live in a ‘godless and purposeless world’ and that art simply exists as a diversion from this reality. In his latest article Fr Robert Barron gives his response to this bleak vision…