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Dante and All Souls’ Day, by Russell Shaw – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Dante and All Souls’ Day, by Russell Shaw

Dare to Be a Daniel, by Roger Helle

October 28, 2024

It’s Not 2004 Anymore: The Stale Catholic Debate Over Voting Ignores New Threats, by Peter Wolfgang

October 28, 2024

Screenshot. Detail of a statue of Dante in Firenze, Italia. (Image: Nicola Fittipaldi / Unsplash.com)

By Russell Shaw, Catholic World Report, Oct. 28, 2024

Russell Shaw was secretary for public affairs of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops/United States Catholic Conference from 1969 to 1987. He is the author of 20 books, including Nothing to Hide, American Church: The Remarkable Rise, Meteoric Fall, and Uncertain Future of Catholicism in America, Eight Popes and the Crisis of Modernity, and, most recently, The Life of Jesus Christ (Our Sunday Visitor, 2021).

It’s good to think about Purgatory as we approach All Souls’ Day, when the Church reminds us to take special note of loved ones, family, and friends who may now be in

“This mountain’s of such sort that climbing it is hardest at the start; but as we rise, the slope grows less unkind.”

The speaker is the Roman poet Virgil, Dante’s companion and guide in scaling the lofty mountain of Purgatory in the second book of Dante’s tour-de-force account of the afterlife, The Divine Comedy. They’ve already paid a harrowing visit to the Inferno. Now it’s the turn of Purgatorio, where souls who need purifying are cleansed from of the stain of sin. After that–heaven.

Note the neat bit of catechesis (one of many) that Dante, via Virgil, slips in casually: The great mountain of Purgatory–which the souls must climb–gets easier the higher they go. …

Dante and All Souls’ Day, by Russell Shaw

Dare to Be a Daniel, by Roger Helle

It’s Not 2004 Anymore: The Stale Catholic Debate Over Voting Ignores New Threats, by Peter Wolfgang

By Russell Shaw, Catholic World Report, Oct. 28, 2024

It’s good to think about Purgatory as we approach All Souls’ Day, when the Church reminds us to take special note of loved ones, family, and friends who may now be in

“This mountain’s of such sort that climbing it is hardest at the start; but as we rise, the slope grows less unkind.”

Note the neat bit of catechesis (one of many) that Dante, via Virgil, slips in casually: The great mountain of Purgatory–which the souls must climb–gets easier the higher they go. …

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