The three catechist’s illustrations that follow are not meant to confuse our children. They represent three stages of catechist’s drawings, where each increasingly distort that which grew out of the previous stage. These are but examples of modern twentieth century art and graphically shows what influences art throughout history. The sentimentality of … Read more

For eight centuries, the Cross and Islam were engaged in a fight to the death in Spain that ended only when the troops of the Catholic Kings seized Granada and expelled the last Moslem ruler from the peninsula. The reasons for this mortal opposition were multiple. On the religious plane, it was … Read more

A small group of tribe members gather in a circle around what appears to be the ruins of a Mayan temple. A lit torch casts a dim light on each one of them in such a way that darkness consumes everything but their faces. A man steps forward and says: “Fire still … Read more

There are two ways of considering a library. One way is to see it only in terms of its material function as a place where books, magazines, documents, bookcases, and tables should be protected from humidity, fires, and thieves. These documents, magazines and books should also be efficiently organized so that they … Read more