I recently taught a short six-class course for Homeschool Connections on “Poems Every Catholic Should Know.” The text for the course was my book of the same title, which is an anthology of Christian ...
Leila Chatti, a Tunisian-American poet whose father was Muslim and mother Catholic, has written an astounding book of poems. Bold and provocative, Deluge presents intensely physical poems about faith, ...
Today’s poem, “Christ’s Nativity,” illustrates the posthumous influence of the Anglican poet-divine George Herbert (1593–1633) on his Welsh disciple Henry Vaughan (1621–1695). Vaughan was only twelve ...