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SciFi Writer, John C. Wright, Enters Catholic Church at Easter Vigil (conversion story)
Et Tu ^ | March 15, 2007

Posted on 03/26/2008 11:16:26 AM PDT by NYer

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To: sitetest
That is a shame, I did not know that about the author.

Sometimes, as C.S. Lewis's guide George MacDonald says in The Great Divorce, the author doesn't have a clear idea of what he did mean.

I wouldn't read Riddley Walker again, but it was an amazingly well written book. It's written entirely in a hypothetical post-apocalyptic English. The only way to understand it is to read it out loud to yourself. It will drive you nuts for the first chapter or so, then you 'get' it.

41 posted on 03/27/2008 9:46:39 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: 353FMG; AlaskaErik; Always Right; Antoninus; ArrogantBustard; blue-duncan; CTK YKC; dan1123; ...
Thank you. You posted on one of my recent 50 Days of Easter 2008 Celebration threads, dedicated to converts to the Catholic faith, and you did not ask to be removed.

If you want to be on the list, but are not on it already, or if you are on it but do not want to be, let me know either publicly or privately.

Happy Easter. Christ is risen!

Alex.


Previously posted conversion sotries:

Anti-Catholicism, Hypocrisy and Double Standards
Why I Returned to the Catholic Church. Part I: Darkness
Why I Returned to the Catholic Church. Part II: Doubts
Why I Returned to the Catholic Church. Part III: Tradition and Church
Why I Returned to the Catholic Church. Part IV: Crucifix and Altar
Why I Returned to the Catholic Church. Part V: The Catholics and the Pope
Why I Returned to the Catholic Church. Part VI: The Biblical Reality
His Open Arms Welcomed Me
Catholic Conversion Stories & Resources
My Personal Conversion Story
My (Imminent) Reception into the Roman Catholic Church
Catholics Come Home
My Journey of Faith
LOGIC AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF PROTESTANTISM
"What is Truth?" An Examination of Sola Scriptura

42 posted on 03/27/2008 4:58:38 PM PDT by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: annalex

I had no idea on was on your ping list please remove my name.


43 posted on 03/27/2008 5:04:13 PM PDT by wmfights (Believe - THE GOSPEL - and be saved)
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To: annalex

I did not ask to be added to your papal defense ping list. Please remove me before my gag reflex overloads.


44 posted on 03/27/2008 5:11:22 PM PDT by Manfred the Wonder Dawg (Test ALL things, hold to that which is True.)
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To: Manfred the Wonder Dawg; wmfights

Done.

I simply put those who posted anything on the previous threads till such time that they object.


45 posted on 03/27/2008 5:16:48 PM PDT by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: annalex

From science fiction to fiction.


46 posted on 03/27/2008 5:56:19 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
fiction

Calvinist take on the scripture always struck me as extreme, but this is over and above the expectation, thanks.

47 posted on 03/27/2008 6:28:45 PM PDT by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: Manfred the Wonder Dawg

lol.


48 posted on 03/27/2008 10:31:02 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: sitetest
Miller wrote a sequel to Canticle, but I'm made to understand that it was a poor work, marred especially by Miller's encroaching mental illness and ostensible loss of faith. Knowing his end, one can see foreshadowing of it in Canticle. Very sad.

Miller ended himself before he could end this pathetic sequel. Other hands finished it. Depression compounded by a priest's refusal to remarry him and his ex-wife, rumor has it.

The original, and worthy, book was written as an act of penance for his role (as a navigator) in the WWII bombing raid that destroyed Monte Casino, the oldest monastery in Europe. May the perpetual light shine upon Walter Miller, and may the souls of this faithful departed through the mercies of God rest in peace.

49 posted on 03/28/2008 8:50:29 PM PDT by RJR_fan (Winners and lovers shape the future. Whiners and losers TRY TO PREDICT IT.)
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