Giraffe, I ask you to point to where I even hinted that orthodoxy was "slavish unithinking ill-considered fundamentalist adherence to the Magisterium." In fact...
Perhaps I should have been content merely to echo this response: "Good grief, that someone still reads George Gilder amazes me.... " Substitute Wills for...
Um. "Clearly there are different senses of being Catholic or not besides strict adherence to the teachings of the magisterium, as important as that may be." ...
I'm a big fan of O'Conner and Percy too (have you read "The Life you Save May be Your Own", the bio of these afore mentioned and Merton and Day? Really...
Coles is the author of many books. The volumes in Children of Crisis are: A Study in Courage and Fear, Volume 1 of Children of Crisis, 1968 Migrants,...
I am struggling with describing Coles' books. They are fine meditations of the lives of children. He wrote books about the spiritual, moral, and political...
Hello and Merry Christmas! I'm trying to flesh out my fiction ideas into a presentable format, and I'm wondering if anybody knows good internet sites or...
Not sure about the sci-fi/erotica angle, Kevin, and it's been a couple of years since I was an active member, but you might try Zoetrope.com, which was started...
... I wouldn't have thought that this was such a big occupational hazard! But, what if you tried to form a Christian writers' group? You could advertise (if...
The book is called The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. Just finished this book on a friend's recommendation and wondered if anyone else had read it and what...
I started it, but never finished it. I found the prose style obnoxious for some reason, and I wasn't drawn in to the plot. I'm probably the one who mentioned...
Well I guess I'm in the minority here. I read it, found it a little hard to stick with at first because of the time shifting. But it held me, and I found it...
Interesting...I read this book in one weekend I was so engaged. I've turned on a couple of other friends who have really enjoyed it and finished it in a...
Debra, Excellent, excellent review! Very insightful. I agree with so much of what you've said (the "Post-Holocaust" novel observation is spot on). Now...
One warning about SILENCE: It's got to be one of the "hardest to take" novels I've ever read--but don't let that stop you! BTW, one keeps hearing rumors that...
This is a bit off-topic for this group, but I figure that someone here is bound to know the answer, so here goes. Does anyone have a good source of information...
I remembered Catholic Answers' Jimmy Akin commented on the same article. In fact as I incorrectly remembered it he used the same example. The relevant thing...
Thanks for the link! If you (or anyone else) happen to come across the "mob boss" example somewhere independently of John Allen, let me know. That's apparently...
Here is an un-impeachably orthodox source, Germain Grisez's The Way of the Lord Jesus, vol. 2: Living a Christian Life, p. 237: "It is always direct scandal to...
Just tagging onto the end of this thread for a Russell update: Heard her speak at the American Library Association meeting, and got in line for an advance...
Correct enough. But one cannot use it in one's own case (it is not like the principle of double effect). It can only be used to mitigate the evil done by a...
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