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Posted in Classics on Jan 13th, 2008
reviewed by John Murphy
François Mauriac, winner of the Nobel Prize and recipient of France’s Legion d’honneur, was among the last century’s most pre-eminent men of letters, and a devout Roman Catholic. Vipers’ Tangle is one of Mauriac’s most famous works, a book of bruising beauty that explores man’s capacity for love and hate, bitterness and [...]
plots from Shakespeare and the myth of St. George and the Dragon inspire this provocative mystery-thriller by CatholicFiction.net editor Debra Murphy.
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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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