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The Lord of the Rings and the Christian Faith, by Fr Edmund Little
Rarely in the publicity about the new film is any mention made of the fact that Tolkien was a devout Catholic and that his work reflects his Faith. He wrote to a priest friend, "The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously so in the revision".
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Catherine of Genoa's Treatise on Purgatory
"The Catholic Church has always taught that there is a Purgatory but has been able to tell us precious little about it. Apart from Dante's imagination it is only in the writings of the visionaries that we are afforded even a precarious spy-hole into the celestial smelting works, and we can give or withold our credence for their reports as we choose.
"Of these spy-holes, the one treated with the most reverence by theologians and spiritual writers is the Treatise on Purgatory by Catherine of Genoa.
"It is a work of seventeen chapters in as many pages, yet it is written with such rare intensity and simplicity that one feels a whole shelf of volumes couldn't focus on the subject with the same precision.
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