God’s First

Guillermo del Toro was born to make a Frankenstein movie. Growing up in Guadalajara, Mexico, he divided his time between the Catedral de la Asunción de María Santísima and local cinemas, where he was exposed early on […]

In the middle of the seventeenth century, Blaise Pascal was not alone in worrying that his nation and continent were no longer Christian enough. Today, the idea of a Christian society is much farther removed […]

A little more than two years ago, I wrote my first regular column here at Catholic World Report, and it was about work. I was reflecting on a trip I took to England as part […]

“Reality is not just what we see,” Sarah Cortez told me in a recent interview for the Ignatius Press podcast. “For me, as a poet,” she elaborated, “my vocation or calling is to try to bring the […]

French novelist, poet, and critic Michel Houellebecq is a pessimist and a controversialist. He is also a realist, and in his latest novel, Annihilation, he writes, “However much one might despise, or even hate, one’s […]

There is a lot to like about Pope Francis’ recent letter “On the Role of Literature in Formation”. Originally conceived as an encouragement for seminarians to include fiction and poetry as part of their education, […]

In 2016, the legendary Japanese animator and filmmaker Hayo Miyazaki was invited to watch an AI-generated sequence, engineered by young computer animators. The images were of grotesque, writhing figures, which the creators imagined “could be […]

A few years ago, Beth Gibbons decided to learn Polish. That is, she learned enough Polish to perform Górecki’s Symphony No. 3 (“Symphony of Sorrowful Songs”) with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki. As […]