PROF. WHITE'S VIDEOTAPES ON CATHOLIC CULTURE

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PROF. WHITE'S VIDEOTAPES ON CATHOLIC CULTURE
(1) Preparing for the Seed:  Culture and Anti-Culture (52:12 minutes)
(2) Dividing the World:  Dante and Shakespeare (56:30 minutes)
By Prof. David Allen White
Copyright 2000, 2 videotapes
"In the Spirit of Chartres" Committee
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Most Catholics, including traditional Catholics, are abysmally ignorant of 
their great classical and Catholic cultural heritage.  This situation should 
as a priority be remedied.  As a result of it, Catholics fall prey to the 
most anti-Catholic propaganda on such subjects as the Holy Crusades, 
Christopher Columbus, Galileo Galilei, slavery, the Holy Inquisition.

Some traditional Catholics go too far in the other direction, rejecting 
anything that is not absolutely Catholic in the narrowest sense, so that, for 
example, they would reject the <I>Aeneid</I> of the Roman poet Vergil because 
he was born before Christ or the plays of William Shakespeare because he 
worked under the anti-Catholic Queen Elizabeth I (even though there is 
significant evidence to the effect that Shakespeare was, and perhaps 
remained, a Catholic).
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Prof. White, who teaches English literature at the United States Naval 
Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, presents in these videotapes a broadly 
Catholic view of literature and a sane approach even to good literature that 
is not Catholic, as opposed to the products of the "junk culture" that we are 
daily exposed to.  Prof. White considers that such greats as Vergil and 
Shakespeare "plant the seeds" for Catholicism, recalling Christ's Parable of 
the Sower.
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If you feel that you are not as conversant with classical and Catholic 
culture as you should be, particularly to answer anti-Catholic arguments, you 
should strongly consider viewing these tapes.
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