DVD SETS ON CATHOLIC CULTURE

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DVD SETS 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 White
Copyright 2000, 2 DVDs
"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 Aeneid 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).

Prof. White, who taught English literature at the United States Naval 
Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, presents in these DVDs 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" to which 
we are daily exposed.  Prof. White considers that such greats as Vergil and 
Shakespeare "plant the seeds" for Catholicism, recalling Christ's Parable of 
the Sower.

If you are not as conversant with classical and Catholic culture as you 
should be, you should view these DVDs.