The Catholic World articles from November 1993

The Catholic World archives from November 1993

Rethinking "religious" art.
November 1, 1993... Three years ago, we attended a conference at Villanova University in Pennsylvania on art, politics and religion. Much of the discussion at the keynote address centered upon the "problem" of contemporary visual art: how it is all abstract; how...

Movies: the struggle between art and entertainment.
November 1, 1993... In the aftermath of Dan Quayle's broadsides of "Murphy Brown" and of Pat Buchanan's acerbic defense of "traditional values" during last year's Republican Convention, attacks on the entertainment industry got a bad name and seemed to some even...

Children and television.
November 1, 1993... Although children may be taught the life skills they need to get along in the world - how to communicate, eat nutritious meals, obey safety rules, handle money, dress properly, get along with others - many parents do not realize that there is a...

Shall we dance? Religion, culture and movement.
November 1, 1993... Remember your first attempt at dancing - perhaps that exuberant spinning as a toddler, around and around and around with arms flailing until you fell down from dizziness and started giggling? Dancing is something we all do, whether it's the...

The world of film: cinema as we approach the millenium.
November 1, 1993... In exploring what we might expect from the world of film in the nineties, one caution is in order. In the early 1980s, William Goldman, one of the movie industry's premier screenwriters, wrote a book entitled Adventures in the Screen Trade. In...

Love among the ruins: music's eternal epiphanies.
November 1, 1993... The scene is the garden of a magnificent Italian villa. A young couple is strolling hand in hand on a balmy summer evening. They come to a grassy knoll, and the young man, in a rapturous outburst, turns to his beloved and says: How sweet...

Lessons of the Heart: Celebrating the Rhythms of Life.
November 1, 1993... In the dedication of this book to her children, Pat Livingston writes, "Love is stronger than pain. Laughter has more power even than death. And most of all . . . God loves." Every page of her book demonstrates how completely...

Belonging to the Universe: Explorations on the Frontiers of Science and Technology.
November 1, 1993... The book identifies elements of new paradigm thinking emerging in all academic disciplines - physical sciences, social sciences, humanities, theology. The Preview outlines five elements of this paradigm as they apply to the fields of physics...

Travels With Ted and Ned.
November 1, 1993... For anyone to whom the name of Fr. Ted Hesburgh means anything, Travels with Ted & Ned will be an enjoyable and sometimes engrossing read. It may be read with special enjoyment by those contemplating or actually facing retirement. The edited...

Sports: shaping our stories and our myths.
November 1, 1993... The reason Dick Sparks, the editor of this issue, asked me to write an article on sports goes back to a conversation we had while driving back from a conference in Washington. In relating a childhood story, I situated the story by saying it...