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The text evaluates Jim Shaw’s challenge to Catholic writers, then argues that Father William L. Doty fulfills it through Fire in the Rain and The Mark. It highlights the reader’s engagement beyond doctrinal issues, emphasizing shared conflicts and spiritual interiority. 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 \n\"In the material sense there is prac-tically nothing left.The numerousand fervent Christian communities hefounded in Asia Minor and Mace-donia,where Christianity had,as itwere,its second cradle,have todayall disappeared.The Gospel of Paulwas driven from them by the Koranof Mohammed,just as in its turnthe Koran is today being driven outby atheistic secularism.The few com-munities Paul founded elsewherehave wasted to mere shadows.Onlythe Roman community remains thespinal column of Christianity,but itwas not founded by Paul,who alwaysconsidered it built on foundations laidby others.  \n\"In the spiritual sense the precisecontrary is true.Paul's work notonly persists today in its entirety,but  \nAbbot Ricciotti  \n“...one of those rare scholars who uniteprecision of thought,scientific exactness andscrupulous documentation with an engaging,charming,simple,facile expression.”一The Sign  \nit has grown and spread more thana thousandfold.When we compare itwith what it was at the time of Paul'sdeath we cannot help thinking of theGospel parable of the mustard seed.Today Christianity,in large measure,means Paul,just as human civiliza-tion in our era signifies in large mea-sure Christianity.The truly civilizedman,consciously or unconsciously,isto","cbCaioCUtlhRJKew","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaioCUtlhRJKew","pdf",995914,16,"English","# A Fictional Ideal\n## Catholic novelists and the portrayal of priesthood\n## Father William L. 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