Catholic Art in a Secularized World: Meet Dana Gioia and Frank La Rocca

(ANALYSIS) Besides being close in age, Gioia (born 1950) and La Rocca (born 1951) are both half Italian on their fathers’ side, and both are from working class families. Gioia’s ethnic heritage on his mother’s side is Mexican. La Rocca’s ethnic heritage on his mother’s side is Ukrainian. Both poet and composer are roughly of the same generation as Archbishop Cordileone, who was born in 1956.

Analysis, Catholicism, North America, Art and Music, Art & Music, Arts & CultureRoseanne T. SullivanJune 9, 2023R.T.M. Sullivan, R. T. M. Sullivan, Roseanne T. Sullivan, Dana Gioia, Frank La Rocca, Catholic, Catholic Art, San Francisco’s Archbishop Cordileone, Archbishop Cordileone, Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship, Meet Me at the Lighthouse, Messe des Malades, Mass of the Sick in Honor of Our Lady of Lourdes, Castellamare del Golfo, Sir James MacMillan, Morten Lauridsen, Can Poetry Matter?, Tyler Cowan, National Endowment of the Arts, Poetry Outloud, Poetry Out Loud, New Formalist movement, Notes on the New Formalism, Kevin Walzer, Dana Gioia and Expansive Poetry, Robert McDowell, Studying with Miss Bishop, The Catholic Writer Today, Mike Aquilina, Jessica Hooten Wilson, Benedict XVI Institute, Maggie Gallagher, Martin Rokeach, Catholic Imagination Conference, Blanton Alspaugh, Primary Feature, artComment

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