Culture

From the archives: Bishop discusses the role fairy tales play in children's development arguing against the ban and censorship of their imaginations.

“You,” I told the Blessed Mother, “will have to be her mother.”

The purpose of higher education is not to make of the youth a truly wise man, but to equip his mind with an ordered knowledge which will enable him to advance toward wisdom in his manhood.

Meals are so important. The disciples knew Christ in the breaking of bread. We know Christ in each other in the breaking of bread... gluten in wheat is like flesh.

Poems from five poets

An editorial cartoon

Dorothy Day lays out her program for a vast system of Catholic Worker houses of hospitality.

On imagination, faith, and the natural fancy of children

Padraic Colum celebrates pancakes, friendship, and Shrove Tuesday in this 1931 piece from our archives.

In Eric Gill's Christmas pictures the artist's frugality of execution finds perhaps the theme which suits its peculiar genius best.

The Church is the strongest connecting link between the old world and the new

Reviews of 'What Price Glory,' 'The Miracle,' 'Bewitched,' 'The Haunted House,' and 'The Werewolf'