{"id":294311,"date":"2024-12-31T18:58:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T18:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/31\/the-catholic-culture-podcast-112-walker-percys-angelic-bestial-future\/"},"modified":"2024-12-31T18:58:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T18:58:28","slug":"the-catholic-culture-podcast-112-walker-percys-angelic-bestial-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/31\/the-catholic-culture-podcast-112-walker-percys-angelic-bestial-future\/","title":{"rendered":"The Catholic Culture Podcast: 112 – Walker Percy’s Angelic-Bestial Future"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Aug 11, 2021<\/p>\n

“Now in these dread latter days of the old violent beloved
\nU.S.A. and of the Christ-forgetting Christ-haunted death-dealing
\nWestern world I came to myself in a grove of young pines and the
\nquestion came to me: has it happened at last?”<\/p>\n

So wonders Dr. Tom More, a descendant of the great English
\nmartyr, in the first sentence of Walker Percy’s third novel,
\nLove in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at Time
\nnear the End of the World<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Written in 1971, this prophetic work presents a world
\nstartlingly like our own. Today’s guest, literary scholar Jessica
\nHooten Wilson, joins the show to give a general introduction to
\nPercy and discuss aspects of what is for many his most beloved
\nnovel,\u00a0Love in the Ruins<\/em>, which she describes as a
\n“panoramic satire” indicating that modernity’s \u201clost sense of self
\nmakes it impossible to live the good life\u201d.<\/p>\n

Topics include:<\/p>\n