Catholics Read A Christmas Carol
Luke, Kiara and Victoria discuss A Christmas Carol, including the notion that Charles Dickens popularised a secularised observance of Christmas.
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Catholics Read The Screwtape Letters: Part II
In this second episode, Luke, Kiara and Victoria look at the banal austerity of evil, as well as the temptations to isolation and spiritual pride.
Catholics Read The Screwtape Letters: Part I
In this first episode, Luke, Kiara and Victoria discuss C.S. Lewis’ self-criticism within The Screwtape Letters, and why he never wrote a sequel.
Catholics Read The Importance of Being Earnest
Luke Kiara and Victoria discuss the satisfying schadenfreude of Earnest, as well as the problem of truthfulness & lying.
Catholics Read Revelation
Luke and Victoria discuss the disconnect between thought and word, being “born on third base” and whether frankness is a virtue.
Catholics Read Pied Beauty
Luke, Kiara and Victoria discuss the importance of the author to a work, and Hopkins’ contribution to poetry through sprung rhythm and the curtal sonnet.
Catholics Read The Extraordinary Cabman
Luke, Kiara and Victoria explore the problems with radical skepticism, and what our features as humans show us about how we should approach the world.
Catholics Read Scandals
Luke, Kiara and Victoria discuss Ven. Fulton Sheen’s thoughts on scandal in the Church, and what scandal says about the nature of the Church.