/lit/ - Literature

Shakespeare

>>9670565
Shakespeare was a humanist. That is like saying The Canterbury Tales is good catholic /lit/. OP just listen to "opiate" by Tool Mkay sweetie?

If you haven't read this then you should go ahead and get started with that.

>>9670473
What's Catholic literature anyway? Why not call it Christian literature? I mean what's specifically Catholic about ACfL for instance? If he had mentioned the patriarch of Constantinople instead of the pope would you call it Orthodox literature? I don't think that's the point of the book, it's about Christianity more then just Catholicism.

canticle for leibowitz

>>9670987
I doubt you read that since you can't even read the thread.

>>9670588
Aren't like half the tales about members of church orders and friaries, etc.?

>>9670979
It's Catholic because the Church in it has the Papal hierarchy, uses monastic orders, and emphasizes saints.
Some protestants rabidly hate the Pope and some think Catholics 'worship' saints and are being heretical.

>>9670473
Morte D'Urban.
Pynchon was raised Catholic..

>>9670473
My diary desu

>>9670979

The distinction is important to separate books informed by true and correct beliefs from those informed by heretical protestant beliefs.

>>9670473
Saint Augustine of Hippo
>The City of God
>The Confessions

Thomas Aquinas
>Summa Theologica

Blaise Pascal
>The Provincial Letters
>Pensées

Misc
>The Catechism of the Catholic Church
>The Desert Fathers
>The Imitation of Christ

If you're okay with more Christian, but not specifically Catholic then:

C.S. Lewis
>Mere Christianity

Goethe
>Faust

Fyodor Dostoevsky
>The Brothers Karamazov
>The Posessed

G.K. Chesterton
>The Everlasting Man
>Orthodoxy

Misc
>Paradise Lost
>Pilgrim's Progress

>>9671434
Everything suggested above is entry level garbage. Try Joseph de Maistre and Baltasar Gracian.

Confessions

>>9671454
Isn't Joseph de Maistre just known for his traditionalist stances? In that regard he is outdone by Guenon and Evola. But pardon me if I'm mistaken, and he has written important works on Catholicism.

Huysmans.

>>9671488
De Maistre is a master prose stylist, which Evola and Guenon are not, to say the absolute least.

When I'm looking for religious books I just go to Ignatius press and look around. If it's on there it's in line with the Church.

>>9670473
Tolkien is pretty much very catholic

>>9671913

Yeah pretty much very.

>>9671831
How does this pertain to Catholicism?

>>9670473
Utopia by Thomas More

>>9670473
Chesterton is pretty catholic. His fiction is pretty decent lit but his essays on Catholicism give an interesting perspective on what Catholicism is and how it compares to other theologies and philosophies.

>>9670588
>sweetie posting in reply to bait
>thinking humanists weren't Christians
fuck this place is shit house now

canitcle for leibowitz

>>9670565
fpbp

>>9671923
Yeah I'm not pretty much very a native English speaker, sorry for my weird sentences.

>>9670979
>thinking there is any worth in Christian literature outside of Catholicism

Come on anon, I'm a heathen but it's obvious Catholics have the best authors and aesthetics. Is there anything more soulless and empty than the Protestant worldview?

>>9670473
Lord of the World
Brideshead Revisited
Grey Eminence
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

>>9671488
>de Maistre
>tamer than Guenon and Evola
Not quite, he's really scary at times.

>people recommending church shit

Fuck off. Read Mistral's poems.