Joie de Vivre is a thirty-four page print journal of Catholic art, cultures, 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