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How models from literature guide us toward the good.
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How models from literature guide us toward the good.
We are flawed creatures. But we are not hopeless creatures— unless we mistakenly pin all our hopes on our flawed selves.
Walker Percy was an American novelist and essayist whose interests included spirituality, philosophy and religion. His first novel, The Moviegoer, won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1962. In 1986, America awarded him the Edmund Campion Award. He died on May 10, 1990.
Walker Percy: "Writing is a craft like any other. Writers and carpenters had better have respect for the workaday tools of the trade, the feel of the wood under the thumb."
Current problems in both the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Churches could providentially lead to a healing of the Great Schism.