For a More Manly Catholicism
By David Warren Edgar Allan Poe mentioned three things, in connection with the Earthly Paradise, or perhaps there were four; I don't pretend to be a Poe expert. But so far as I remember, they were: life in the open air, the love of a good woman, and the creation of some original form of beauty. These struck me at the time (I was a teenager, and not yet consciously a Christian) as a useful list, so long as I could choose the location, the girl, and the art. Of course, location would include the season, with temperature, precipitation, and wind velocities, for I come from Canada where it can be…
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