...this week on new book English Catholic Heroines, which will be published in the Autumn. Contributions on different Catholic heroines by a number of excellent writers...my job is to put it all together, check short biogs of each contributor etc.
When not busy with this and other work, am deep in Philosophy for Divinity degree. John Paul II's Fides et Ratio a good read, hadn't tackled it before.
Time off: all this week, the Daily Mail has been giving away free DVDs of classic films from the 1940s - The Dam Busters, The Wooden Horse, The First of the Few, Millions Like Us etc. So easy to smile at the cheps with clipped eccents, moustaches,hearty jokes. Less easy to do so at the courage, willingness to give their lives for others. These films were old when I was young. They were the wallpaper of the culture of our parents' younger lives, they celebrated values that had been tested. People knew there was a propaganda message of course - and that real life had plenty that was sordid and cruel, that the war was producing much that was horrible, and so on. But that isn't the point. There's much more to think about than that.
If young people were influenced - and they were - by films honouring courage, loyalty, faithfulness, high standards of behaviour in public and in private...how are today's young being influenced by the images put across in today's mass media?
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Dear Joanna,
Thank you for all that you do. For the links on your blog,your staunch loyalty to the TRUTH of our faith. Your passion is a beacon to me, and I'm sure to others as well in this secular world we live in.
It feels good to watch your programmes on tv, know that you write for nrewspapers and are interviewed regarding the faith, because I know for sure that you will do so with the right intentions & not water anything down.
Thank you once again.
Alyson
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The generation who fell away from the Church were the generation that were raised and educated in the Fifties.
I know post hoc doesn't always mean propter hoc, but maybe we should question whehter those wholesome values were as wholesome as they seemed.
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