Joie de Vivre Journal | Winter 2023
Joie de Vivre is a thirty-four page print journal of Catholic art, culture, and letters for South Louisiana. We provide a space for artists, poets, pastors, historians, theologians, and story-tellers to reflect upon the Catholic faith, the arts, and their intersection with our native culture. Joie de Vivre is a publication of The St. Louis IX Art Society.
This issue features:
Fr. Ajani Gibson on St. Peter Claver Parish (New Orleans)
Christopher Ragusa, Ph.D., on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Christian life
Guy de St. Denis on hunting
Danny Fitzpatrick on local artist, Carol Scott
Christopher Baglow, Ph.D., on teaching Joseph Ratzinger
Manny Marquez on film and conversion
Michael Lane on the sacramentality of the fountain pen
Short story by Rachel Moore
Poetry by Caitlin Smith Gilson, Ph.D., Mallory Nygard, and James Matthew Wilson, Ph.D.
Cover art and reflection by Grace Fitzpatrick