Nick Ripatrazone

What we can learn from Aaron Rosen's What Would Jesus See

seeing as jesus sees. for those of a certain age, it would be easy to misread the title of aaron rosen’s new book as “what would jesus do?” ...

The Bible’s strange poetry

a new translation of a book exploring the bible’s foreign and divine language is a spirited defence of the sacred, poetic word, says nick ri...

Poetry about walking the Camino

nick ripatrazone reflects on a tender and attentive book of illuminating poetry documenting the journey to santiago de compostela nick maion...

Rescuing a forgotten Seneca

nick ripatrazone applauds a new translation and presentation of the roman writer seneca’s play the madness of hercules. dana gioia, the nota...

Jessica Powers: Habits of poetry and prayer

nick ripatrazone writes in his new book about jessica powers, an american nun and mystical catholic poet. ‘i should like to go to new york.”...

Franz Wright and the cleansing truth of the Resurrection

nick ripatrazone considers the deep, spiritually introspective words of an award-winning poet who worked with grieving children. in arlingto...

John P Meier: Catholic biblical scholar of rigour

when fr john p meier died in october 2022, the world lost a renowned catholic biblical scholar – whose ambitious, multi-volume project, a ma...

Patrick Kavanagh: Poet in the twilight

Nick Ripatrazone considers the work of the renowned and often controversial Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh
‘every old man i see / in october-coloured weather / seems to say to me: ‘i was once your father’.” wake forest university press – as part o...

New book on forgiveness through literature gives Catholics much to ponder

A new book exploring forgiveness through contemporary literature gives Nick Ripatrazone much to ponder
allow me to indulge in a public confession: of all the tenets of catholicism, the one i struggle with the most is forgiveness. we are called...

The pleasures of dissonant reading

Nick Ripatrazone reads a well-worn copy of The Imitation of Christ in a freshly-mown field
i sat on a mower in the middle of a two-acre field. paths of light and dark criss-crossed the grass. bees darted in and out of the chaff. in...

The Exorcist frenzy

Nick Ripatrazone considers why The Exorcist has always been and still remains such a powerful film – and a very Catholic film
a stern-faced, dark-haired priest wielding an out-stretched crucifix spanned the front cover of the feb-ruary 11, 1974 issue of newsweek. in...

The virtue of games

Catholic education includes an emphasis on cultivation of the body through sport, says Nick Ripatrazone, introducing the young to fortitude and justice
basketball is a loud sport: a joyous cacophony of sneakers squeaking on the court, dribbling balls and backboard shots, and bodies clamourin...

Warhol’s Catholic tastes

nick ripatrazone finds the latest series about the artist perfectly depicts the startling paradoxes that guided his life and work the final ...

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