Catholics Read A Good Man is Hard to Find
Luke, Kiara and Victoria tackle O’Connor’s most well-known short story by looking at the notions of Grace & tragedy, “Golden Age” syndrome, and the tale’s infamous ending.
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Catholics Read Lord of the Flies
Luke and Victoria discuss how people (and morality) survive without civilisation, the root evil of pride in all sin, and the Biblical origins of the name Lord of the Flies.
Catholics Read Animal Farm
Luke, Kiara and Victoria explore why man-made ethical systems ultimately fail, how Orwell’s cutting satire speaks about our own culture, and how a stirring revolutionary anthem can be set to the tune of La Cucaracha.
Catholics Read Mere Christianity: Part IV
Luke, Kiara and Victoria discuss why faith is more than feelings, how The Trinity is like a dance which He created us to participate in, and why through Christ’s Incarnation and Death we become part of God’s Divine Life.
Catholics Read Mere Christianity: Part III
This time Luke, Kiara and Victoria delve in to the virtues which guide proper Christian behaviour, the difference between psychoanalysis and morality, and how attaining virtue can be a case of “fake it ’til you make it”…
Catholics Read Mere Christianity: Part II
This week Luke, Kiara and Victoria look at C.S. Lewis’ commentary on the competing concepts and caricatures of of God, how a good God is consistent with our human experience of evil, and why God became Man two thousand years ago…
Catholics Read Mere Christianity: Part I
Three Catholics dive in to the first book of C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity by exploring the book’s background, how human behaviour brings us to God, and how Lewis’ criticism of “the march of progress” is relevant in our own day.