So Much Generosity - Greaney, Michael D.

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Résumé :
The late Dr. Ralph McInerny, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame du Lac, once commented that some Catholic novels are so good, they're bad. He meant that the heroes are so virtuous that you simply can't believe them. Worse, the novels try so hard to be Catholic that they fail to be catholic, that is, universal, or even any sort of realistic commentary on the human condition. Worst of all are probably the novels that try to imitate the authors profiled in this appreciation of the fiction of Nicholas Cardinal Wiseman (1802-1865), John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890), and Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914). Part of this is due to the fact that many people misunderstand not only why these writers wrote, but what they wrote. Benson's wonderfully barbed satire, for example, endeared him to Evelyn Waugh, yet it is often characterized as prophecy! This collection of biographical sketches and essays by Mr. Michael D. Greaney, Director of Research at the interfaith, all-volunteer think tank, the Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ) in Arlington, Virginia, U.S.A., does much to dispel the misimpressions and misunderstandings many people might have of the novels of Wiseman, Newman, and Benson. More than that, this compendium introduces these works to a new generation of readers, and makes it clear that the authors wrote for everyone, not just for Catholics, or even Christians.

Biographie:
With a degree in Accounting from the University of Notre Dame and MBA from the University of Evansville, Indiana, Michael D. Greaney is Director of Research for the interfaith Center for Economic and Social Justice in Arlington, Virginia. In that capacity he participated in the presentation of a seminar at the Vatican hosted by Achille Cardinal Silvestrini on the importance of widespread capital ownership in combating global poverty, and co-edited the compendium, Curing World Poverty: The New Role of Property (1994). He has appeared on the Eternal Word Television Network's EWTN Live with Father Mitch Pacwa and Bookmark with Doug Keck. He is the author of Ten Battles Every Catholic Should Know (2018) from TAN Books, Easter Witness (2016) about the 1916 Rising in Dublin, Ireland, So Much Generosity (2013) about the fiction of Cardinals Wiseman and Newman and Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson, and a number of other works.