A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

WILLA CATHER ON THE BEAUTY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

Willa Cather, The Selected Letters of Willa Cather, edited by Andrew Jewell & Janis Stout (New York: Knopf, 2013) (From a letter to Read Bain, dated October 22, 1932: "No, I am not a Catholic, and I do not think I shall become one. On the other hand, I do not regard the Roman Catholic Church merely as 'artistic material'. If the external form and ceremonial of that Church happens to be more beautiful than that of other churches, it certainly corresponds to some beautiful vision within. It is sacred, if for no other reason than that is the faith that has been loved by human creatures, and loved over the great stretch of centuries." Id. at 458.).