[The Dream of Gerontius]
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Public:
Year of publication:
2013
Pages:
56
Moral assessment:
Type: Thought
Nothing inappropriate.
Requires prior general knowledge of the subject.
Readers with knowledgeable about the subject matter.
Contains doctrinal errors of some importance.
Whilst not being explicitly against the faith, the general approach or its main points are ambiguous or opposed to the Church’s teachings.
Incompatible with Catholic doctrine.
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Recommendable:
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The longest Poem written by John Henry Newman, consisting of the prayer transit of a dying man, and what happens next.
Written in 1865, after Newman's conversion from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism, the poem expresses in poetical form many truths of Catholic dogma: Judgement, Purgatory, Paradise, the guarding Angel (who accompanies him), and the praying for the deceased.
Author: Jorge Gaspar, Portugal
Update on: May 2023