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Posted in Events on Dec 9th, 2008
Poet John Milton, author of the epic Paradise Lost, is 400 years old today, December 9—perhaps a little ironically, given Milton’s “sect of one” Calvinism, on the feast day of Marian visionary, St. Juan Diego. Here are a couple of articles and news items in the great poet’s honor:
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Posted in Classics, Events, Historical, Religious Life on Dec 5th, 2008
Of special interest to fans of the classic Catholic novel, Silence, by Shusaku Endo, here is an article by Sandro Magister on the recent beatification (Nov 24, 2008) of “Fr. Kibe and his 187 companions”, martyred for their faith in feudal Japan in circumstances similar to those related in the novel.
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Posted in Events on Sep 30th, 2008
The international conference, Reason, Fiction and Faith, to be held in Rome, 20-22 April 2009, forms part of the biennial “Poetics and Christianity Project” series at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross.
The Conference will provide an occasion for scholars, academics and artists to reflect not only on Flannery O’Connor and her work but also on the issues that both raise, [...]
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Death of a Pope by Piers Paul Read
What [Orwell and Waugh] had most in common was a hatred of moral relativism. They both believed that morality is absolute, though they defined and applied it differently. But each believed with all his heart, brain, and soul that there were such things as moral right and moral wrong, and that these were not subject to changes in fashion. Moral relativism was, in fact, the gravest of sins. Everything else they believe in common flowed from this basic perception.
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