[percy-l] weatherbee
Collins, Bernard F. (Skip)
Bernard.Collins at jhuapl.edu
Tue Apr 11 23:23:03 EDT 2006
I suppose Percy intended Fr. Kev, (like the "nutty American nuns, female Clint Eastwoods who have it in for men and are out to get the Pope" mentioned in Lost in the Cosmos) to be emblematic of the rather strange situation Catholics are in vis-à-vis modernity. The tensions between Catholicism and the peculiarly American mode of self-worship, are bound to produce some weird outcomes.
B
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From: percy-l-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:percy-l-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Gray, Rich
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 4:54 PM
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Bernard,
Very helpful. Would Fr. Kev be a feint to throw readers off from classifying all priests as emblems of Christianity?
In The Thanatos Syndrome doesn't Tom More make a passing remark to update us on Fr. Kev? I can't find it quickly.
Rich
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From: Collins, Bernard F. (Skip) [mailto:Bernard.Collins at jhuapl.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 2:10 PM
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Has anyone mentioned the "Dutch schismatic" Fr. Kev Kevin in LITR? He "takes clinical notes, operates the vaginal console," and sits at the computer, "reading a book, Christianity Without God."
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From: percy-l-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:percy-l-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Gray, Rich
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 1:17 PM
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Allen,
It is great to hear from you again. Thanks so much for your information on Father Weatherbee. I will get ahold of your book and check it out. Any further ideas on "priests," Episcopal or Catholic?
Rich
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From: Allen Pridgen [mailto:apridgen at pinehurst.net]
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 12:35 PM
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Subject: [percy-l] weatherbee
Fr. Weatherbee retires from the sacramental world to spend his time playing with toy trains, while more informed searchers like Father Smith are up in the firetower looking for signs (with his azimuth -- Arabic for "the way").
See my Walker Percy's Sacramental Landscapes (Susquehanna UP, 2000) for a new way of looking at Fr. Weatherbee (137-42).
Allen Pridgen
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