Masterpieces of Catholic Literature

I was actually looking for something else – something completely different, as in books by noir author Alfred Hayes – on archive.org, when I ran across this.

Published in 1965. I’m linking to it here, and publishing screenshots of the table of contents. So at the end of the Second Vatican Council, this was where we stood, generally. Interesting. What the literate Catholic might be aware of and be informed by. There’s not a lot of fiction. Really, only The Woman Who was Poor and Dante. Of course, in 1965, even though they’d been published for a few decades, one didn’t presume to put Waugh or even Chesterton’s fiction in the “masterpiece” category. It’s interesting to see a bit of aggiornamento creeping in, in a title like Zen Catholicism.

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