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Who's your favorite Catholic writer?

>> No.18595650

>>18595641
G. K. Chesterton

>> No.18595739

Mgr de Ségur

>> No.18595798

>>18595641
Carl Schmitt

>> No.18595833

>>18595641
Early Joyce

>> No.18596754

Augustine

>> No.18596942

>>18595641
Ludwig Derleth

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>>18595641
Gene Wolfe

>> No.18596974

>>18595641
Is your wife named Helen? Helen is a nice name.

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>>18595641
Tolkien probably.

>> No.18597246

>>18595641
Either Tolkien or Dante

>> No.18597286

St. Teresa of Avila

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Luther, but only after he wasn't a Catholic anymore :^)

>> No.18597310

>>18595641
St. John
Dostoevsky

>> No.18597316

>>18597303
But Luther remained Catholic, he just wasn't (((Roman Catholic))).

>> No.18597334

>>18595641
My mom.

>> No.18597348

I'll ask in this thread. I'm looking for a book, written in the medieval era, it may have been written by a priest.
The book is about a mans travels and having to deal with assaults from little pesky demons that follow him around causing annoyances etc.

>> No.18597414

>>18597348
I think you are talking of St. Anthony and his time in the desert. I think it's written in the Golden Legend.

>> No.18597551

>>18595650
This and Hilliard Belloc

>> No.18597607

The best writers were influenced by the Church.
>Tolkien
>O'Connor
>Chesterton
All devout Catholics
>Cormac McCarthy
>James Joyce
Raised Catholic.
>Wallace
Considered converting as a child.

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This nigga

>> No.18597646

>>18596968
I didn't know he was Catholic. What a coincidence, just picked up Shadow & Claw at the library a few hours ago.

>> No.18597655

>>18595650
fpbp

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>>18597414
based and blessed

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>>18597666
Kek this guy

>> No.18597686

>>18597414
>>18597666
Yes this is it, thanks anons. I just wanted to look up the painting by the way but both jobs were done for me =))

>> No.18597919

>>18597666
>>18597672

Catholic Hagiography is so kino, who are your favorite Saints, /lit/?

>> No.18597969

Could Aristotle be considered a Catholic writer, just for the sheer amount of influence he had? Currently reading Nicomachean Ethics, riveting stuff
>>18597919
St Francis

>> No.18598033

>>18595641
Blaise Pascal, Chesterton, Tolkien

>> No.18598089

>>18595641
McLuhan

>> No.18598249

>>18595641
pynchon

>> No.18598449

When did this board become cathcuck all of a sudden? It's a fairly recent development.

>> No.18598477

>>18598449
It has been years. 2016 started it. It used to be about the Greeks, but the philosophy addicts made it all about the philosophers and especially Plato. Vulnerable man-babies needed more daddies to cling to and the proselytizing LARPers swooped in

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>>18595641
vaticancatholic.com

>> No.18598514

>>18598477
Huh. Wonder why I'm just now noticing it..

>> No.18598522

>>18595641
Jesus Christ

>> No.18598553

>>18597316
KEK, Based anon, dropping redpills on papists.
Real Catholics could never worship Satan, simple as.

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>> No.18598723

>>18598582
basado

>> No.18598731

Marsilio Ficino
J.R.R. Tolkien
Giambattista Vico

>> No.18598864

>>18595641
>Who's your favorite Catholic writer?
>>18595650
>G. K. Chesterton
Excellent answer but I will take Georges Lemaitre and the Doctors of the Church, St. Therese, St. Aquinas St. Augustus etc.

>> No.18598865

Alphonsus Liguori
Francis de Sales
Benedict XVI
Mother Teresa
Carmelites (Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, Therese of Lisieux, Edith Stein, Elizabeth of the Trinity, Brother Lawrence, etc.)

>> No.18598877

>>18597919
Saint Dominic

>> No.18598934

>>18597919
Venerable Matt Talbot isn't canonized yet, hopefully will, but his life is very inspiring to me.

>> No.18598936

>>18595641
head ass lmao

>> No.18598952

Tolkien

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>>18597919
Terry A. Davis

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>>18595641
Tomberg

>> No.18600125

>>18597666
So I read The Tempations of St. Antony and just wow. Idk what to say.
That get, lol.

>> No.18600195

>>18595641
Bataille

>> No.18600633

>>18599100
based