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Last Saturday's NYT had an interesting column by Peter Steinfels (which I
hope gets attached here and which you all can read) about the place of
Catholicism in American life. It refers to a forthcoming article by Prof.
J. T. McGreevy of Harvard (which I intend to read in full) and it
establishes, I think, an important intellectual context for Percy's
Catholicism. It is my view that we don't know much (yet) about the
"interiority" of Percy's faith, but the books and articles do position
Percy in the midst of the conflict that McGreevy charts between American
liberal social thought and the Church which Percy embraced.
I wonder if others on the list want to discuss this?
Marcus Smith
Department of English
Loyola University
New Orleans, Louisiana 70118
Office: 504-865-2481; Fax 504-866-1966
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