Catholics Read Equal Rites
Kiara, Victoria & Luke discuss Terry Pratchett’s Equal Rites, as well as gender roles and sexual difference in fantasy literature and Western history.
Kiara, Victoria & Luke discuss Terry Pratchett’s Equal Rites, as well as gender roles and sexual difference in fantasy literature and Western history.
The Catholics Read team discuss Natalia Sanmartín Fenollera’s The Awakening of Miss Primm, and the importance of truly personal communication and community.
Kiara, Victoria & Luke discuss Julius Caesar’s The Conquest of Gaul, his matter-of-fact writing style and the hints of this seen in later great authors.
In this episode, Victoria, Luke and Kiara discuss John O’Brien’s The Trimmin’s on the Rosary, and the maternal Irish origins of Australian Catholicism.
The team discuss G.K. Chesterton’s “Heretics”, particularly looking at his commentary on the need to love our neighbour as a person, not an abstraction.
The team discuss Mark Twain’s “Joan of Arc”, the story of the great French saint, and why it is one of Kiara’s favourite books.
The team explore Jennifer Fulwiler’s “Something Other than God”, the notion of humility in approaching hard Church teachings, and Kiara’s own conversion.
Luke and Victoria discuss the Challenge to the Privy Council, the life and martyrdom of St Edmund Campion, and why he is a great model of the priesthood.