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Quotes from The Catholic Writer Today — Dana Gioia

born 1950 United States

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10 quotes

"If the soul of Roman Catholicism is to be found in partisan politics, then it's probably time to shutter up the chapel" (24).

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"The Catholic writer really needs only three things to succeed: faith, hope and ingenuity" (31).

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"It is time to renovate and reoccupy our own tradition" (35).

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“The writer needs good works—good literary ones” (33).

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"If Catholic literature has a central theme, it is the difficult journey of the sinner toward redemption" (14).

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“Two great poets are stronger than two thousand mediocrities” (31).

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“We necessarily bring the whole of our hairy and heavy humanity to worship” (29).

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"A New York leftist and an Alabama Pentecostal may not agree on much, but too often they share a dislike of Catholics" (22).

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“Dante and Hopkins, Mozart and Palestrina, Michelangelo and El Greco, Bramante and Gaudi, have brought more souls to God than all the preachers of Texas” (29).

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“If Catholic Christianity does not offer a vision of existence that transcends the election cycle, if our redemption is social and our resurrection economic, then it’s time render everything up to Caesar.”

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dana Gioia (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.