For the modernist, Christmas must be stripped of its Christian meaning, separated from the religious holy day it is and always has been. It is not breaking news that traditional Christmas to secularists is the epitome of religious exclusion and …
Author: Edward P. Shikles

Modernism and the Strangling of the Arts
It has become a truism today that art and artistry constitute some personal experience, individualistic interpretation, or emotional self-expression. And while many pieces of art today are designed to be abstract, the meanings of which are left to the imagination …

Film and the Art of Evangelizing
A holy priest I know once defined beauty as “order with variety.” The world, however, sees beauty as relative and simply a matter of personal preference. The appreciation of beauty is so innate in the human mind that it is …