I have just finished Kristin Lavransdatter, a long, but most intensely interesting book. Clearly the author appreciated the humnaity and sinfulness of all of...
I was sent the names of two books on the Catholic theme and the Defense of Bataan, "Give Us This Day," by Sidney Stewart and "Brothers of Paul" by Richard...
Has anybody read anything by Andre Dubus? I hear he's a very sacramental writer, and I'm thinking of suggesting his work to the Denver Catholic Book Club. I...
Dubus is an astonishing writer - deeply Catholic, deeply sacramental, but very unsettling. Not like Flannery O'Connor... it's hard ot explain. Just read him....
I have been reading Paradise Lost, finished it today. I have to say I liked it. I especially liked between when Adam and Eve eat the fruit and God comes to...
I have never been able to warm up to Milton's portrayal of God. Too puritanical. He seems out of control, almost foolish, and then alternately vengeful. I...
Well, I thought the whole thing with the Father and the Son was a bit silly, like they are two people like us sitting up in Heaven talking to each other. But...
... Some people have also seen heresy in the depiction. . . but it's been too long since I've read the poem, and I don't really remember. I do remember...
... Have you heard of Stanley Fish's commentary on Paradise Lost? Here's a review: http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0111/articles/oakes.html Fish thinks...
... I'm new here. I'll just say something enigmatic and see what happens. I recommend the article "The Psycho-Epistemology of Art" in Ayn Rand's book...
Well, it's not for nothing that they are doing a program on PBS pitting C.S. Lewis against Sigmund Freud. Lewis may not have made it all the way to Rome, but...
Did anyone else see "The Question of God" last night ? I thought it was actually quite well done, and I'm looking forward to part 2 next week. I'm not sure how...
... I admit my igorance about Aquinas' ethics, and your question has helped to motivate me to read more of the Aquinas book I have on my shelf. As an aside... ...
... God. ... world, ... and ... Actually, after I read Paradise Lost, I read Goethe's Faust. I guess I was on a Satanic-figures in great literature kick or...
... I suspect you may be thinking of humility different from what it's actually supposed to be. Humility doesn't mean thinking you worse than you are or that...
Jack Lewis (C.S. Lewis if anyone didn't already know) is in entire agreement. He maintains humility is knowing exactly who we are, good, bad and the ugly. ...
Humility.........does not mean thinking less of yourself, but rather, thinking of yourself less. In his terrific book, "Truthful Living", Michael Casey (an ...
I like that first part. I mean, we should just focus on doing what we are doing the best we can, and then let the chips fall where they may. ... the ... that ...
I just found this relevant quotation from Cardinal Newman's The Idea of a University, contrasting humility with its less important cousin, modesty. Modesty is...
Well, I have just discovered the source of all the idiot "reality" shows on TV, or at least it could be the source... I picked up Graham Greene's "Doctor...
It sounds depressing. The "reality" shows depress me. At first, I thought some of ths stunt stuff was fun, but the humiliating food bothers me. I would love to...
I am reading Norman Podhoretz's delightful memoir My Love Affair with American: A Cautionary Tale of a Cheerful Conservative, published in 2000 by The Free...
I don't really LIKE talking about politics, but I just discovered an independant candidate whom I really like, so I'm going to all my message boards and groups...
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn has noted that our anti-politician hostility has an eerie resemblance to the ironic anti-clericalism in the 200 or so years that...
Who's anti-politician hostility ? The members of this email group, or that of Literate Catholics as a whole, or that of some other group ? (I suppose you're...
It's not really Catholic, but I just finished this novel by John Derbyshire and thought some people here might be interested in it. It's the first-person story...
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