[Paul C. Jesup]

In the past four days alone, Oxford’s classicists have used it to make a series of astonishing discoveries, including writing by Sophocles, Euripides, Hesiod and other literary giants of the ancient world, lost for millennia. They even believe they are likely to find lost Christian gospels, the originals of which were written around the time of the earliest books of the New Testament.

I am sure the Catholic Church in Rome is going to have indigestion over this.

But I say, BRING ON THE CLASSICS!!!!

[albertp]

I am sure the Catholic Church in Rome is going to have indigestion over this. But I say, BRING ON THE CLASSICS!!!!

YAWN!!! I don't think CATHOLICS nor the Vatican are going to be upset by this, not after the papacy of John Paul II. Many of us CATHOLICS, and many NON-Catholics as well, are intrigued by the calls for his sainthood, and that he be called "the Great," and "Doctor of the Church."

In other words, we already know which are the true Gospels just as much as other Christians already know. NOTHING will change that.

So, yes, by all means, BRING ON THE CLASSICS. The recently departed Pope was also an actor, playwright, polyglot, philosopher, professor, and an average blue collar worker during the Nazi occupation of Poland. We who look to his example, with admiration and NOT with slavish dependency, are therefore not fazed in the least by any forthcoming "revelation" from newly uncovered "classics," for Jesus Christ has already given us that revelation with the Holy Spirit to guide us unceasingly.

Consider the possibility that Christians of OTHER denominations are just as likely, if not MORE so, to have indigestion over this discovery.

Whatever increases our understanding of history, of Western civilization, of the human condition throughout the ages, of the varieties of religious experience, is therefore to be welcomed and studied in depth.

I am always amused when Freepers try to put down their fellow Freepers who just happen to be Catholic.