{"id":402,"date":"2014-03-26T11:26:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T16:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jenniferfitz\/?p=402"},"modified":"2015-08-25T21:14:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T02:14:46","slug":"what-makes-a-catholic-book-catholic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jenniferfitz\/2014\/03\/what-makes-a-catholic-book-catholic\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes a Catholic Book Catholic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><figure style=\"width: 343px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Angelo_Caroselli_-_Saint_Jerome_in_the_Wilderness_-_Walters_371910.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/38\/Angelo_Caroselli_-_Saint_Jerome_in_the_Wilderness_-_Walters_371910.jpg\/572px-Angelo_Caroselli_-_Saint_Jerome_in_the_Wilderness_-_Walters_371910.jpg\" alt=\"File:Angelo Caroselli - Saint Jerome in the Wilderness - Walters 371910.jpg\" width=\"343\" height=\"360\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Jerome, Patron Saint of the Short-Tempered Writer. Do visit the wikimedia page, nice commentary on the art in the description.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.catholicwritersguild.com\/2014\/03\/what-makes-catholic-books-catholic.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Over at the Catholic Writers Guild blog, I follow-up<\/a> to yesterday\u2019s film recommendation, since I might need to clarify a thing or two before my readers start gasping:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jenniferfitz\/2014\/03\/st-dismas-day-and-a-movie-to-go-with-funeral-kings\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"> recommended a film<\/a> that, on its face, is exactly the sort of thing I don\u2019t approve.\u00a0 Laden with profanity, the story follows a handful of crass, immature, impulsive boys on a trip through adolescence gone wrong, with no firm moral grounding for a finish.\u00a0 If our criteria for \u201cCatholicity\u201d is all that is true, beautiful, and good, I liked this one for the \u201ctrue\u201d \u2014 sin exposed in all its pathetic ugliness.\u00a0 I consider it a valuable work in its proper context, but I wouldn\u2019t call it \u201cCatholic\u201d in a strict sense, even though it has a decidedly Catholic setting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A <em>caveat lector (spectator)<\/em>, in case going to the film\u2019s website hadn\u2019t already done that for you:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There\u2019s no shame in being the kind of Catholic who reads only the best and most certain of indisputably Catholic literature.\u00a0 The human brain is made to learn, and thus it behooves us to tread carefully in educating ourselves.\u00a0 You can always go back and read a book later, but you can never unread it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the one big problem Catholic writers really mustn\u2019t ignore:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even though we authors tend to understand very clearly the distinction between our own values and the ideas and actions of our characters, our readers do not.\u00a0 One of the annoying laws of writing is that a bad philosophy put forward by a character must always be repudiated before the story ends, or it becomes the author\u2019s philosophy as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I follow with a bit of catechesis, a smattering of business talk, and a couple of novels that illustrate my point. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.catholicwritersguild.com\/2014\/03\/what-makes-catholic-books-catholic.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read the whole thing at the Catholic Writers Guild blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>PS: Yes, I\u2019m feeling better! Thank you for praying. Am really digging my newly-reclaimed ability to sit upright for hours at a time.\u00a0 Here\u2019s hoping it sticks.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>PPS: Julie Davis pointed me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/daily-news\/sdg-reviews-noah\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">SDG\u2019s review of Noah<\/a>, for more film &amp; Catholicity commentary, plus help deciding if you want to go see the thing.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Catholic Writers Guild blog, I follow-up to yesterday\u2019s film recommendation, since I might need to clarify a thing or two before my readers start gasping: I recently recommended a film that, on its face, is exactly the sort of thing I don\u2019t approve.\u00a0 Laden with profanity, the story follows a handful of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-catechesis-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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