Who we are
The New Catholic Devotional is founded on the idea that there's no such thing as orthodoxy in art: there is bad art, and there is good art. Art can be bad in any number of different ways: it can lack definition, have too much definition, lag in the middle, rush at the end, talk about black roses weeping darkly or feature the phrase 'ur so mean :('—and, yes, it can confuse evil with good or true with false.
But good art only happens when form meets content, and the two interact in the nuances of proportion, tone, meaning, and every shadowy thing that makes us love a book, poem, or painting. Inherent in these things is a sort of honesty—be it realistic, abstract—that must be present in all art to earn the name, but most especially in religious art, where artistic truth and excellence is dependent on the divine truth it seeks to portray.
So, yes, you can be sure we will only publish poems that are alive with the Faith. However, you can also count on finding a variety of styles, both in form and content. We don't think either free or metered verse is from Satan; we think art that provokes can sit beside more contemplative pieces. (We do, however, think Hallmark may be the work of the Prince of Darkness, and we're quite unsure about Thomas Kinkade, so please send such things to the CDF, not us.) +NCD
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