‘Canto fermo’ is the term for an existing melody used as the basis for a new composition. The prose and poetry of mystics like John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila and Edith Stein – all informed by the Gospel – is my ‘melody’. The ‘new composition’ is this blog and my indie novel ‘The Age for Love’. To buy my book go to amazon.com or smashwords.com and download to your kindle, iPad, phone or any reading device.
Thursday, 26 June 2014
WINNING READERS AND EARNING A LIVING OUT OF BLAMING PEOPLE (Letter to Dom Post, June 27)
‘If the entire population of Ireland abandoned Catholicism,’ asks Karl du Fresne
(No prizes and no need for Google, June 27), ‘could anyone blame them?’
Certainly no true Catholic or Christian would: their response would be one of
compassion, not blame. But it’s natural, and much easier, to blame people.
That’s one of the reasons Catholicism is so disliked and misunderstood by many,
especially journalists like du Fresne, who wins readers and earns a living from blaming people.
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