BRENDAN McMANUS  :: A review of 'Wild Rose', the 'redemption story' of a country music singer.

BRENDAN McMANUS :: Review of 'Blinded by the light', a gem of a movie in which Javed, a Pakistani boy growing up in Thatcher's Britain, turns for meaning to the music of Bruce Springsteen.

PAULA NOLAN :: This year's RHA Exhibition of visual arts will have on display a photo taken at Manresa House, the Novitiate in Birmingham

BRENDAN McMANUS :: An Ignatian reflection on the life of Freddie Mercury in the light of 'Bohemian Rhapsody', Briyan Singer's 2018 film

The arts and nature express the beauty of creation and bring joy to the soul. Let us join the Pope in praying for artists

TOM CASEY :: Leonard Cohen’s song “Hallelujah” stands out from a lot of contemporary pop. It shows the singer's awareness of a key theme of the Bible: surrender.

DERMOT ROANTREE :: Leonard Cohen's new album, 'You want it darker', is a fitting conclusion to a life of art that probed the mystery of the divine and the human.

DERMOT ROANTREE :: Everything about 'The Skeleton Tree' is beautiful but heart-breaking. While preparing it, Cave heard that his son had died in an accident.

American Jesuit John W O’Malley SJ is a renowned historian and author. In this interview with Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications he claims that from the mid-sixteenth century until their suppression, the Jesuits were the most prolific patrons of the arts.

John W. O’Malley SJ will present this public lecture ‘Jesuits and the Arts in the Tridentine Era’. John is University Professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. His books have won major prizes, and his best known work, ‘The First Jesuits’, has been translated into ten languages. His book ‘What happened at Vatican II’ has become a standard reference text. ...