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TeresaBenedicta

[quote name='Saint Therese' post='1949289' date='Aug 15 2009, 12:24 AM']Fiction-Franz Werfel
Non-Fiction- George Weigel[/quote]

George Weigel was our commencement speaker this past May.

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VeniteAdoremus

I like George Weigel in a "friendly uncle" kind of way, but of course there's no competition for Chesterton.

And I like C.S. Lewis as well :) Why didn't Tolkien manage to get him across the Tiber? :(

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Fidei Defensor

[quote name='Chestertonian' post='1949324' date='Aug 14 2009, 09:57 PM']His fiction or non-fiction?[/quote]
Both.

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[quote name='Hassan' date='15 August 2009 - 01:11 AM' timestamp='1250320262' post='1949443']
I think Anscombe was a pretty impressive person in general.
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I agree. Here is an interesting article she wrote:

[url="http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/AnscombeChastity.shtml"][u]Contraception and Chastity[/u][/url], by Elizabeth Anscombe

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goldenchild17

[quote name='pat22' date='15 August 2009 - 06:25 AM' timestamp='1250339156' post='1949524']
mohammed....... oh wait..... um...... Louis De Wohl's pretty good. i just have a hard time picking up a religious book when there's a sci-fi novel laying right there.
ya know what i mean?
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The High Crusade by Poul Anderson is good. Very Catholic - and medieval - and fun sci-fi depending on how demanding you want to be about it. Makes for a nice short read and the Catholic elements are spot on, though I don't believe the author is Catholic.

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[quote name='scardella' date='14 August 2009 - 01:39 PM' timestamp='1250275172' post='1948851']
Fiction - God
Nonfiction - God

Any questions?
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What fiction did God write?

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I suppose it depends upon whether you think a parable has to be based upon a true historical incident or whether it can be a fictional tale intended to make a moral point.

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[quote name='Resurrexi' date='02 September 2009 - 01:56 AM' timestamp='1251871011' post='1959785']
What fiction did God write?
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Parables... doesn't make the lessons any less true or inspired, though.

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I have so many, I couldn't list them all.

However, off the top of my head;

St John of the Cross

Archbishop Fulton Sheen

Thomas Merton

Fr Thomas Keating

Fr Basil Pennington

Fr Thomas Dubey

Teilhard De Chardin (I'm just starting to get into some of his writings)

Jim

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holy smooookes only two people picked tolkien? :blink:

I was expecting to see him all over :sadder:

Definitely Tolkein for fiction
And of course the Angelic Doctor St. Thomas Aquinas (ora pro nobis!) for non-fiction

PS: Someone chose Lewis for one of their answers, but he remained Anglican.

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