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Published: 2016-02-15 03:28:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 3100; Favourites: 9; Downloads: 0
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Took awhile to pull this one out, but I like it.Some interesting articles about priesthood, celibacy, marriage, and having children:
Children of celibacy: What happens when priests' vows are too hard to keep
The Catholic priest with nine children
I'm a Catholic priest — and I'm married
pg. 141 of William Peter Blatty's "Dimiter."
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Morbid, of course, but the end is solid despite being predictable. The gap on the page before the final word is a nice caesura.
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The way "God" appears in this text, far from the rest of the unobscured text, in God's own place far away, is a powerful statement in itself.
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I thought so, too. I like how the original text can arrange itself in certain ways that allow new arrangements like this to happen--a reason why I enjoy blackout poetry so much.
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He saved all his tears for god.
That was powerful.
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