Monday, January 12, 2009

When Jules Verne met Pope Leo XVIII

I posted I guess what was Part I of this over at Inside Catholic last week at Jules Verne Was Catholic? . They have Part II of which deals with the big meeting of Verne and his Holiness.

What is of interest here is not only how the Church was engaging culture (even in sort of the first Sci Fi way back) but the comparison to the works of atheist H.G. Wells:

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