Catholics Read...: Recent Episodes
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The Catholics Read team chat about a selected book from the wide world of literature - from the classic to the popular to the downright obscure.
Luke and Victoria discuss Humanae Vitae, and how the document - along with the acceptance and rejection of it - has affected their lives.
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Kiara and Luke discuss Mary Beard's SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, exploring the crisis of identity in both the ancient Roman and modern worlds.
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Victoria and Luke continue to look at Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, discussing the grace woven through the book, and the power of Julia's choice.
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Luke & Victoria explore Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, discussing the book's strange hope amidst a series of disasters and its demonstration of "gritty grace".
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Luke & Kiara discuss St Thérèse of Lisieux's Story of a Soul, the beauty of the Communion of Saints, and the heresy of Jansenism.
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Kiara & Luke explore Shusaku Endo's Silence: the Jesuit spirituality of the novel, and how it can shine a light on our own need for redemption.
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Luke & Kiara discuss Elizabeth Anscombe's Mr. Truman's Degree, political realism in World War II and the analogy of pacifism and celibacy.
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Kiara, Victoria & Luke discuss Terry Pratchett's Equal Rites, as well as gender roles and sexual difference in fantasy literature and Western history.
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The Catholics Read team discuss Natalia Sanmartín Fenollera's The Awakening of Miss Primm, and the importance of truly personal communication and community.
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Luke and Victoria explore Benedict XVI's Last Testament, discussing his ability to maintain charity under immense criticism, and his sense of integrity.
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Victoria and Luke explore Sense and Sensibility, how it reflects us to ourselves, and what St Thérèse of Lisieux teaches us about these characteristics.
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Luke and Victoria discuss The Cross and the Switchblade, David Wilkerson's refreshing radicality and how it can help Catholics to trust in the power of God.
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Kiara, Victoria & Luke discuss Julius Caesar's The Conquest of Gaul, his matter-of-fact writing style and the hints of this seen in later great authors.
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In this episode, Victoria, Luke and Kiara discuss John O'Brien's The Trimmin's on the Rosary, and the maternal Irish origins of Australian Catholicism.
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The team discuss G.K. Chesterton’s “Heretics”, particularly looking at his commentary on the need to love our neighbour as a person, not an abstraction.
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The team discussed Mark Shea's "Work of Mercy", how the Works of Mercy highlight Christ's Incarnation, and the radicality of Christian love and mercy.
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Luke and Victoria react to Robert Browning's My Last Duchess, discussing Browning's technique for creating considerable tension in the poem.
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The team discuss Mark Twain's "Joan of Arc", the story of the great French saint, and why it is one of Kiara's favourite books.
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The team explore Jennifer Fulwiler's "Something Other than God", the notion of humility in approaching hard Church teachings, and Kiara's own conversion.
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Luke and Victoria discuss the Challenge to the Privy Council, the life and martyrdom of St Edmund Campion, and why he is a great model of the priesthood.
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The team discuss Letter From Birmingham Jail, exploring the influence of Martin Luther King Jr's Christian faith on his work, and lessons for non-violence.
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The team explore Roger Scruton's Pleasure vs Happiness, discussing his distinction between pleasure and happiness, and lack of beauty in contemporary art.
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Luke, Kiara & Victoria look at The Lady of Shalott, discussing the poem's focus on medieval technique, and what the team got out of the text.
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Luke & Kiara discuss A Study in Scarlet, exploring the character of Sherlock Holmes, its influence up to today, and the story's treatment of the LDS church.
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Luke & Victoria explore Macbeth, discussing free will and predestination, the consequences of sin in the order of nature, and true masculinity & femininity.
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In this episode, Luke, Kiara & Victoria discuss George Bernard Shaw and the controversial ending to his play Pygmalion.
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Luke and Victoria look at Ovid's fables of Echo & Narcissus, discussing the mytho-historical format and C.S. Lewis' theory that the fables are satirical.
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The team reflect on From Union Square to Rome, discussing the simplicity of Dorothy Day's conversion and her love for the working poor.
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Luke, Kiara and Victoria explore Brave New World to discuss the removal of humanity in pursuit of a misguided perfection, and more...
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The team discuss Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, how it relates to contemporary society and identity, and an instance of a bad Victorian pun.
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Luke and Victoria reflect on Eugine Onegin with reference to its complex poetry, "the Russian Soul", and Luke and Victoria's differing reactions to the work.
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Luke, Kiara and Victoria discuss The Gift of the Magi by reflecting upon the mutual gift of self in marriage, and more.
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Luke, Kiara and Victoria discuss A Christmas Carol, including the notion that Charles Dickens popularised a secularised observance of Christmas.
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In this second episode, Luke, Kiara and Victoria look at the banal austerity of evil, as well as the temptations to isolation and spiritual pride.
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In this first episode, Luke, Kiara and Victoria discuss C.S. Lewis' self-criticism within The Screwtape Letters, and why he never wrote a sequel.
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Luke Kiara and Victoria discuss the satisfying schadenfreude of Earnest, as well as the problem of truthfulness & lying.
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Luke and Victoria discuss the disconnect between thought and word, being "born on third base" and whether frankness is a virtue.
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Luke, Kiara and Victoria discuss the importance of the author to a work, and Hopkins' contribution to poetry through sprung rhythm and the curtal sonnet.
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Luke, Kiara and Victoria explore the problems with radical skepticism, and what our features as humans show us about how we should approach the world.
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Luke, Kiara and Victoria discuss Ven. Fulton Sheen's thoughts on scandal in the Church, and what scandal says about the nature of the Church.
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The team explore Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales for Children, discussing the absurd comedy of the text and the incongruity theory of humour.
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Luke, Kiara and Victoria explain Pope Francis' call to get back to reality, and how we must above all change ourselves.
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Luke, Kiara and Victoria discuss an elephant named Climate Change, the rupture of humanity and nature, and its effect on our view of people and the world.
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Luke, Kiara and Victoria explore William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream to find out about love, marriage, and the early seeds of British comedy.
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Kiara, Luke and Victoria tackle T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, exploring the often convoluted language and style - and the unique power of poetry.
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Kiara, Luke and Victoria explore H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, discussing whether a political message can break suspension of belief, and more!
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Kiara, Luke and Victoria discuss The Brothers Grimm's Cinderella, exploring its good lessons and curious features, including a reflection on adaptations.
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Kiara, Luke and Victoria explore Wilfred Owen's stark and challenging masterwork in this episode of Catholics Read.
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The team discuss The Great Divorce by looking at the individual characters, and how they are afflicted with temptations to flee the love and mercy of God.
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Luke, Kiara and Victoria discuss The Great Divorce in the first of two parts, exploring Lewis' presentation of Heaven, Hell and purgatory.
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Luke, Kiara and Victoria dive in to Leave it to Jeeves, exploring the sitcom-before-the-sitcom, and the difference of communication between men and women.
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Luke, Kiara and Victoria explore Banjo Paterson's The Man From Snowy River, discussing the Australian culture featured in the poem, and "the man" himself.
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Luke, Kiara and Victoria discuss J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, exploring the glamour of evil and the richness of culture as found in Tolkien's world.
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Luke, Kiara and Victoria explore at Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal, looking at the shortcomings of a purely economic approach to the human person, the purpose of satire, and whether large families are to blame for poverty in the developing world.
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Luke, Kiara and Victoria look at Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, discussing the pitfalls of (quasi) first-person narrative, racial discourse without and surrounding the text, and why you should almost never use the term "In Africa...".
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Luke, Kiara and Victoria discuss Dr Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, explaining the ironic commercialisation of Christmas, the text's fantastic qualities for children (and adults), and how anyone of any character can undergo a conversion.
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Luke and Victoria discuss G.K. Chesterton's On Lying in Bed, exploring multiculturalism, the right to life, and leisure as a truly human pursuit.
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The team explore Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven, discussing the endurance of love, and the Catholic understanding of heaven...
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Luke, Kiara and Victoria discuss Poe's The Raven, touching on poetic melancholy and the ability of art to predict the direction of philosophy and history.
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Luke, Kiara and Victoria explore Oscar Wilde's The Selfish Giant, discussing innocence, beauty, the Divine and the 19th Century aesthetic movement.
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Luke, Kiara and Victoria discuss Kate Chopin's Regret, touching on themes of vocation, motherhood, and the beauty that can be found in an abundance of life.
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Luke, Kiara and Victoria explore W.B. Yeats' Adam's Curse, discussing the unusual structure of the poem and its commentary on beauty, whether beauty will truly fade away with time, and if effort in human works is a result of the Fall.
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Luke, Kiara and Victoria discuss The Princess and the Goblin; exploring the presentation of God's Grace in the lives of two children, and how a great-great grandmother teaches us about the Virgin Mary and true femininity.
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Luke and Kiara "fly duo" with The Wife of Bath's Tale; discovering how the medievals were the opposite of prudish, how Chaucer may have satirised the philosophical view of women in his time, + more
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Luke, Kiara and Victoria dive in to The Communist Manifesto; exploring how the document fails in its understanding of the human person, whether having wealth is inherently evil, and whether trade unions can be a force for good.
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Luke, Kiara and Victoria discuss how Fitzgerald's narrative style highlights two complementary ways in which we can know people, how the Catholicism he rejected continued to influence his work + more...
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Luke, Kiara and Victoria dive into The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; exploring the text's ubiquitousness in Western culture, Adams' mastery of British comedy, and even some hints of Theology...
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Luke, Kiara and Victoria look at Le Guin's short fiction providing commentary on the problem of viewing sin as benign suffering, and how Catholic teaching looks to a third way in many moral and ethical dilemmas.
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Luke, Kiara and Victoria explore Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; discussing the overtly Catholic culture of the poem, pondering the virtuous nature of the protagonist, and attempting to read Middle English on air - with questionable results.
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Luke, Kiara and Victoria dive in to J.R.R. Tolkien's short story Leaf by Niggle, and discuss the creative process and its greater meaning, how beauty can emerge out of suffering, and what we can learn from Tolkien's refusal to compartmentalise the facets of his life.
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Luke, Kiara and Victoria explore this detective thriller to discuss Chesterton's ability to "paint with words", the poetry of order in the world, and why Catholicism provides the ultimate rebellion against the law of entropy.
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Luke, Kiara and Victoria dig in to the infamous story of witchcraft, hysteria, adultery, and vengeance to explore Arthur Miller's striking presentation of redemption and marriage.
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Luke, Kiara and Victoria tackle O'Connor's most well-known short story by looking at the notions of Grace & tragedy, "Golden Age" syndrome, and the tale's infamous ending.
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Luke and Victoria discuss how people (and morality) survive without civilisation, the root evil of pride in all sin, and the Biblical origins of the name Lord of the Flies.
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Luke, Kiara and Victoria explore why man-made ethical systems ultimately fail, how Orwell's cutting satire speaks about our own culture, and how a stirring revolutionary anthem can be set to the tune of La Cucaracha.
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Luke, Kiara and Victoria discuss why faith is more than feelings, how The Trinity is like a dance which He created us to participate in, and why through Christ's Incarnation and Death we become part of God's Divine Life.
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This time Luke, Kiara and Victoria delve in to the virtues which guide proper Christian behaviour, the difference between psychoanalysis and morality, and how attaining virtue can be a case of "fake it 'til you make it"...
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This week Luke, Kiara and Victoria look at C.S. Lewis' commentary on the competing concepts and caricatures of of God, how a good God is consistent with our human experience of evil, and why God became Man two thousand years ago...
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Three Catholics dive in to the first book of C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity by exploring the book's background, how human behaviour brings us to God, and how Lewis' criticism of "the march of progress" is relevant in our own day.
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