“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” If George Orwell had seen ahead to today’s scramble to make black —but not white —a proper no| Maureen Mullarkey: Studio Matters
Graphic design is a silent but powerful language. Instantantly recognized, a single graphic serves as a branding device.| Maureen Mullarkey: Studio Matters
Meet Giovanni Battista Bugatti, official executioner for the Papal States from 1796 until he retired in 1864.| Maureen Mullarkey: Studio Matters
Leo XIV's sermon on Pentecost Sunday took its keynote from Benedict XVI. On Pentecost, 2005, Benedict proclaimed: "The Spirit opens borders... She [the Church]| Maureen Mullarkey: Studio Matters
“Is theology poetry?” C. S. Lewis asked the question in a 1944 talk to an Oxford debating society called the “Socratic Club.” Nearly two decades later it became the title of one essay published in a collection: They Asked For A Paper (1962). Does Christian Theology owe its attraction to its power of arousing and satisfying our imaginations? are those who believe it mistaking aesthetic enjoyment for intellectual assent, or assenting because they enjoy? . . . . if Theology is Poetry, it...| Maureen Mullarkey: Studio Matters
America’s Catholics are facing a crisis of authority. The social and economic realities of mass migration contradict the Vatican’s facile theologizing on open borders. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), in accord with Pope Francis’ globalist conceits, opposes President Donald Trump’s resolve to curtail illegal migration. Catholics are caught between fidelity to ecclesial leadership and obedience to the just laws of our own country. Francis’ hostility to Trump is no sec...| Maureen Mullarkey: Studio Matters