Who Is Your Favorite Catholic Author?

[Apotheoun]

[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

[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.

Edited September 2, 2009 by goldenchild17

[Resurrexi]

[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?

[Apotheoun]

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.

[TradMom]

+Praised be Jesus Christ!

Fiction: Rumer Godden
Non-Fiction: St. Therese

Pax,

TradMom

[scardella]

[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.

[JimR-OCDS]

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

[dUSt]

Fiction: Cormac McCarthy, Gene Wolfe
Nonfiction: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John

[Nunsense]

Non-fiction St John of the Cross
Fiction Michael D O'Brien (especially Father Elijah)

[Slappo]

holy smooookes only two people picked tolkien?

I was expecting to see him all over

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.

[icelandic_iceskater]

when I have the time, I'll read a lot of Kreeft.

Chesterton's pretty sweet too.

as far as fiction goes, I'm a fan of Imaculee Ilabagiza.

buuuuut I haven't really read that much, so my range of authors to choose from is pretty narrow.

[CorMaria]

Lewis was not a Catholic.


Tolkien.

[Aloysius]

Non-Fiction: Chesterton
Fiction: Chesterton!

[Selah]

I like reading books written by the Saints.

[KCMayrie]

I'm partial to Scott Hahn for nonfiction and Tolkien for Fiction...but that's just me...

[aalpha1989]

Ss. John of the Cross and Therese of Lisieux (I'm going to a Low Mass with veneration of her relics in Portsmouth on Thursday!!!!! YAY!!!!)

[N/A Gone]

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

[aalpha1989]

Wait! How could I forget St. Louis de Montfort?? Another fave.

[Jaime]

I gave a point to Rev for Balthasar


But you if people have never read TS Eliot, go back to your schools and demand a refund.

[Sojourner]

[quote name='Apotheoun' date='02 September 2009 - 12:02 AM' timestamp='1251864120' post='1959732']
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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She's one of my favorites as well. The essay you link to is included as part of "Why Humanae Vitae Was Right," a collection of essays edited by Janet Smith. It was my introduction to Anscombe, and I've read quite a bit since then. One of my law profs was a big fan of hers, and assigned us [url="http://www.anthonyflood.com/anscombetrumansdegree.htm"]"Mr. Truman's Degree"[/url] as part of our international law readings.

Thumbs up for Von Balthasar as well.

I enjoy Hillaire Belloc and Christopher Dawson.

Gerard Manley Hopkins is my favorite Catholic poet.