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What? That coming from a band avoiding religion? How intoxicating Christianity must be, how deep within man it must stir for the rockstar to be able to write a hymn, and a hymn worthy of the Holy Mass, while trying to avoid religion. This is what I\u2019m getting at. Catholicism is too large to be contained, to rich not to be shared; its grace, its poetry and its depth is simply too great to be limited to those who practice it. It is blood in water; by its thickness alone it slowly diffuses and melts into the space around it. But even then the metaphor fails; for how often is the water around it thicker than the blood itself? We live in strange times indeed, when it is the non-religious who remind us of the beauty of our faith and, unfortunately, more often than our church architecture, our choirs or our preachers.<\/p>\n
So we have The Avett Brothers with lines about Mother Mary<\/a> and singing about crucifixes<\/a>, Death Cab For Cutie spending at least two songs an album trying to get over Catholicism<\/a>, Jack White of The White Stripes fame making sweet references from his Catholic school days, U2\u2019s Irish-Catholic roots really ushering in an era of Christian music, and the best thing about it is it tends to be \u2013 for the most part \u2013 great music and great art. Somehow \u2013 as Sign No More proved \u2013 Catholic-laced songs mean more to the world then sex-laced Pop. Obviously this applies to movies, to paintings and, to an almost ridiculous extent, to novels, but I know my modern music, darnit, so feel to provide any examples of the afore-mentioned arts in the almighty comment box below. The moral? Be proud of your faith, Catholics. It\u2019s no proof of its reality, but certainly its a point in our direction to be so able at affecting the world around us, to make artists out of Catholics and, as I\u2019ve shown, Catholics out of artists.<\/p>\nAnd this diffusion is frowned upon by our new atheist buddies, so you know it\u2019s good. Check out this barely restrained \u201creview\u201d of Mumford and Son\u2019s album Sigh No More<\/a>.<\/p>\nOr, if you\u2019re really bored, check out this article at Catholic Online I was interviewed for<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n