Jitpring
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As you know, debate over whether Shakespeare was Catholic has gained a lot of steam in recent years. What do you think? And what's the most convincing article or book you've read about it?
By the way, who's that ridiculous man who, on pious grounds, discourages the reading of Shakespeare? Is it Gerry Matatics or Robert Sungenis?
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Age, thou art shamed.*
O shame, where is thy blush?**
-Shakespeare, Julius Caesar,* Hamlet**
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| Posted Mar 29, 2011, 11:56 pm |
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roscoe
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One thing is for sure-- he wasn't Bacon. i believe the rumor is that Bacon was conceived in a tryst by Eliz 1and Liecester and he then ghost wrote Shakespere. There is no credibility in this as the witch could not conceive children.
My understanding is that Shakespere had Catholic sentiments but one had to be very careful during those times. Some Catholics would make a show of going to Prot church but would remain secretly Roman.
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No one has ever presented Any evidence from the Bible, a Pope, Church Council, Father, Doctor, Saint, historian, INQ, Bps Pastoral Letter, nor Catholic Encyclopedia or Dictionary that there is or ever has been such a person as a 'sede vacantist' or a state of affairs known as 'sede vacantism' before the V2 era.
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Jehanne
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Difficult to tell. Shakespeare did not, of course, write everything that has been attributed to him. Certainly, in Hamlet, he has a clear reference to Purgatory, but he vilified "Joan of Arc" (Saint Jehanne la Pucelle) in another one of his plays, even though she had, two centuries earlier, been fully rehabilitated and reconciled to the Catholic Church after her death.
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“Not one of the elect and predestined perishes, regardless of his age at death. Never be it said that a man predestined to life would be permitted to end his life without the sacrament of the Mediator. Because, of these men, Our Lord says: ‘This is the will of the Father, that I should lose nothing of what he has given me.’” (St. Augustine, Against Julian 5, 4)
“For in this respect they are in the same condition as the greatest sinners; regenerated in baptism they are alike in sanctity; take away baptism, and they perish all together. It is a fact then, that grace seeks its adopted sons even among the worse sinners in their very last moments, and that many who looked less wicked are denied this gift. But who could say that these facts escape God’s ruling or that He decrees them without a profound justice? …It is obvious that all who die without baptism are lost.” (St. Prosper of Aquitaine, The Call of All Nations 1, 17; 2, 24)
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| Posted Mar 30, 2011, 2:07 am |
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