Theological Notebook: A Review of Thomas Cahill on Pope John XXIII

[novak]

Googling for something else, I found this book review on the Carnegie Council website. of a Thomas Cahill book I'd never heard of on Pope John XXIII that I thought was engaging and worth copying into the notebook.  The anecdotes related about Roncalli in Paris are worth the read alone.   Thomas

Comments

[friede]

How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (1995)

I have a copy of that book. I think I bought it at the EGSA booksale year before last, precisely to send/give to you.

[novak]

Heh. I've had it for years, I'm afraid. It's quite fun, even if - as with all of these, it looks like - I might argue certain points. Please consider it my gift to you!

:-D

[friede]

*eyeroll*

It will no doubt find a home -- if nothing else, it goes back into the life cycle of EGSA books.

For now, it makes its home alongside other books destined for other hands: Coelho's The Fifth Mountain, Dirda's Caring for Your Books, an extra copy of Lewis's Experiment in Criticism, Yale: A Short History, and Literature of the Occult. Interestingly, most of these books I have no interest in myself, but know others who do or might, and so a cache forms.

[novak]

Interesting! The last three all catch my eye, for one reason or another. I don't have the Experiment in my Lewis collection, although I finally found an old copy of The Allegory of Love, which I also have yet to read.

And I love that you got the new dress and immediately iconed yourself in it. It's an interesting cut around the neck.

[friede]

I never could get through the Allegory of Love, though I feel as though I ought. I lean on the Experiment a lot more than I feel comfortable with.

It's an interesting cut, all right -- I would have included a more complete shot in my post on the subject, except it is entirely too... interesting.

[novak]

Ha! :-D

I thought that was supposed to be professional!

[friede]

Well, it is... just not by itself, clearly.

Though I didn't exactly realize this right away -- thank God I decided to cover my bases (er, metaphorically speaking) before I walked out the door in it on Friday!

[novak]

Nice.

[friede]

*facepalm*