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The title that you chose makes a very serious accusation. Do you have more than
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure it out. Lol.   

Offline Ladislaus

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I've heard mixed things about Oscar Wilde, including that he converted and became Catholic before he died.

As for the timing, I suspect that accusation to be a major stretch and likely coincidence.  So I suspect that this thread title is calumny and slander.


Offline Ladislaus

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I should have ended my Title with a question mark, but there wasn't any additional character space.  That would have been less assuming, so I apologize for that.

OK, just saw this.  I guess the question mark would have made a difference.  Perhaps you could have found something else to abbreviate in the thread title to make it fit, because that's very critical.

Offline Ladislaus

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Very interesting article about Oscar Wilde:
https://www.catholiceducation.org/en/culture/art/the-long-conversion-of-oscar-wilde.html

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In 1899 Wilde traveled in Europe, an exile. In 1900 he was briefly in Rome with his companion Robbie Ross. They attended Masses and papal audiences, and Wilde received a blessing from Leo XIII that, he thought, even had a physically curative effect on him. As he joked to Ross, he was "a violent Papist," but he left Rome as he had come, still an admirer of sacred art and sacred ritual, of piety and the papacy, but not yet a Catholic. His health deteriorating and his drinking excessive, Wilde left Rome for Paris, where the final scene of his long conversion would be played.

On November 28,1900, as Wilde lay dying on his bed in Paris, Robbie Ross called in a priest, an English Passionist, Father Dunne. Wilde was given conditional Baptism and was anointed. For a short time he emerged from delirium into lucidity, and Father Dunne, examining him, was satisfied that Wilde freely desired reception into the Church. Wilde died a Catholic on November 30.

Wilde was a conflicted man.  While in jail for his sơdơmy conviction, he spent his time reading St. Augustine, Dante, and Newman.  Then the first thing he did on getting out of jail was to ask the Jesuits if he could make a 6-month retreat at one of their houses.  He said that the Catholic Church was the only one "worth dying in."  

Apparently he was enamored of the Tridentine Mass and Catholic liturgy ... which is the same sensibility that draws some ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs to Traditional Catholicism also.

So many other authors they could have chosen.  Things like this just leave me scratching my head.