Re: Other Catholic Publications « Result #2 Yesterday at 9:19am »
Need to clarify: There are many Catholic periodicals, but they're not literary; rather, they're political, theological, etc. They publish no fiction and only a poem or two here and there. They're not dedicated to literature.
Re: Other Catholic Publications « Result #3 Yesterday at 9:16am »
Ntl, DT remains the only Catholic literary periodical. If I'm incorrect about this, I hope someone informs me. It occurs to me to wonder if the Catholic colleges and universities in the U.S. all have subscriptions to DT. They certainly should, since it's the only.... After all, it's not a matter of competition, but of survival. That could be a project for DT supporters--to assure that all Catholic colleges have subscriptions. DT needs support--what could be more appropriate than a project like this? Shouldn't be that difficult; I don't think there are so many specifically Catholic colleges that the many DT supporters couldn't handle.....?
I've actually been meaning to do this for awhile, but apparently grad school leaves you with less time than I realized.
So hello to all. A bit about myself: I am currently studying for my MFA in Fiction, and teaching English to college students--which is an endlessly interesting experience. My favorite authors include Tolkien and Lewis and Chesterton and Flannery O'Connor. Not very original of me, but then, I didn't realize they were so darn popular when I started reading them! (I'm pretty sure I didn't realize O'Connor was Catholic at first; she was thrust into my hands by an adviser one summer when I was an undergrad.)
I also love philosophy. My favorite is Gabriel Marcel. Anyone ever heard of him?
I hope you all are having a splendid and blessed Christmas.
Re: May I Take This Opportunity to Scream? « Result #8 on Dec 20, 2009, 7:02pm »
Wow! I was just reading part of a book by Fr. Leo Trese, and it just applies so well to this discussion of vocations that I'd like to share it.
From "More Than Many Sparrows":
Quote:
Broadly there are two such vocations: the vocation to marriage and the vocation to the celibate life. The celibate life has what we call "sub-vocations": the priesthood, the religious state, membership in a secular institute, and a single life in the world. It is of this last mentioned vocation, a single life in the world, that we would like to speak here. . . .
(In the next paragraph he basically describes God's "grand master plan": that men and women are meant to complement each other, populate the earth, etc.)
However every master plan provides for special circumstances. God's master plan is no exception. There is work to be done that can best be done--and sometimes can only be done--by persons who are unimpeded by marital or family ties. Sometimes it is a personal work, such as the care of sick or aged parents. Sometimes it is a work of mor e extended charity such as nursing or social service, or some other career that calls for exceptional self-dedication. Objectively it might appear that certain persons could just as well be married as far as their work is concerned. Yet, abstracting from the person whe remains unmarried through mere selfishness, we may be sure that the single person does have a particular part in God's design. . . .
A celibate life in the world is perhaps the most difficult of all vocations. It is far from easy to live holily and happily with none of the supporters of family life or religious community. For that very reason, those whom God has guided to the single vocation will find it a life abundant in grace and merit. It is their divinely appointed path to heaven.
Other Catholic Publications « Result #9 on Dec 20, 2009, 3:28pm »
Hi everyone. I just subscribed to Dappled Things and I was wondering if there are other similar publications to which Catholic writers can submit their work.
Re: New Theory « Result #10 on Dec 11, 2009, 1:00am »
It does occur to me that every single generation since Adam has probably gazed upon the rising generation it has begotten, and lamented the state of these damn kids today. I'm not denying that we are in many ways probably worse than our parents, and that some of those younger than ourselves seem to grasp the basics of logic and morality even less than we did (Beavis and Butt-head becomes The Family Guy; the center cannot hold); but the moral state of mankind can only go so low before it sort of cycles back around. It's like overpopulation: the problem solves itself through famine. (Not to, you know, sound cynical or anything.) I'm not so much concerned about whether the next generation is going to know right from wrong; I expect that, as always, there will be those who do and those who don't, and that the latter will always be shooting at the former. What I am concerned about is the fact that, while the human soul may not have changed much in 20,000 years, the Machine has grown a very great deal indeed. A couple of bad people with some technological power can do a lot more damage now than anyone could have even dreamed of--literally--just a millenium or so ago. Apparently they're working on cerebral scans now that can tell parole boards if the prisoner "really" intends to behave himself if they release him back into society. Yeesh. Abolition of man much? It's not going to take a Stalin to think of applying that sort of thing to the Christians. Press a button and ding, suddenly the idea of abortion makes us feel all warm and fuzzy inside. The truth is, it doesn't really matter what the hell technology like this is used for. It's straying into the realm of the INTRINSICALLY evil now. Questions of logic and morality will simply cease to enter the discussion. All the machines will have ghosts in them, and the ghosts will all be Neros and Hitlers and Marquis de Sades. As to Kate's second question: what do we do about it? Hellfire and damnation, folks. We start training our children in martial arts and gun use as soon as they can crawl.
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