The Catholic Culture Podcast: 198 – The Music of St. Hildegard of Bingen
Jun 30, 2025 St. Hildegard of Bingen, 12th-century abbess, mystic, polymath, and Doctor of the Church, is best known to non-Catholics for something else – her music. We have more pieces of music by Hildegard than by any other medieval composer whose name we know. Her chants are beautiful, otherworldly, virtuosic and ahead of their […]
A Brief History of Surrealist Art: From the Bible and Ancient Egypt to Salvador Dalí’s Dream Worlds
The term surrealism — or rather, surréalisme — originates from the French words for “beyond reality.” That’s a zone, we may assume, reachable by only daring, and possibly unhinged, artistic minds. But in fact, even the most down-to-earth among us go beyond reality on a nightly basis. We do so in our dreams, where the accepted […]
What Is LDL Cholesterol and How Do You Lower It?
Chances are, your cholesterol isn’t something you think too much about. When it comes to your health, your thoughts may already be preoccupied with figuring out more ways to get protein, how to get more sleep, and whether you should do cardio before or after lifting weights. Not to mention, according to a 2023 study […]
Our Top Choices for Vegan Skincare in 2022
Vegan skincare products are a great option for those looking for a more natural and ethical skincare routine. These products are made without any animal-derived ingredients and offer a number of benefits, including being gentle and nourishing on the skin. We’ve tried out numerous vegan skincare products and have determined that Youth to the People – Superfood […]
Indigenous Protocols for the Visual Arts Workshop Series 2023 — BC Alliance for Arts + Culture
CARFAC is excited to announce the release of INDIGENOUS PROTOCOLS dot ART – an essential resource for navigating Indigenous Protocols for visual artists and the artistic community. It is part of an ongoing initiative to strengthen respect for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis visual art and artists, and legal and moral rights in the lands […]
The Twin Poles of Advent
Advent is paradoxical in its marrow: it inaugurates the liturgical year and arrives as the secular year is coming to a close. The time of Advent is in many ways a microcosm of the entire year, encapsulating its pressures and burdens in an especially potent way. It is a condensation of the time between the […]
Leo XIII on what marriage owes to the Church
Jan 2, 2026 Thomas Mirus discusses Leo XIII’s 1880 encyclical Arcanum, on Christian marriage. This was “the first formal and synoptic teaching on marriage since the Council of Trent” – a gap of four centuries. Arcanum is focused on what the Church has done to uplift and protect marriage throughout history. Leo argues at length […]
What is “Yuri”?
You’ve probably heard of Boys’ Love, or BL, a well-known genre in Japan that focuses on romantic relationships between male characters. But have you ever stopped to wonder where all the LGBTQ+ women are in Japanese media? I know I have. Luckily for all of us, believe it or not, there is a genre roughly […]
