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   From: ahnemann@optonline.net   
      
    wrote in message > Thanks for the info.   
   However, I am not aware of any evidence for   
   > Lewis being "in yer face" regarding Catholicism, save for slighting it   
   > by not choosing it.   
   Lewis never criticized the Catholic Church.  C. S. Lewis corresponded for   
   years with  Father Don Giovanni Calabria (friend of the poor and tireless   
   for unity and beatified in Verona, April 17, 1988).Father Calabria founded   
   of the Casa Buoni Fanciulli and authored several publications, especially on   
   Christian unity.  It was a hope C. S. Lewis fully shared with Father John.   
   The letters are touching and informative.  The originals are in Wheaton   
   College, but can be read in the book, The Latin Letters of C. S. Lewis.   
   Father John first wrote to CSL on September 1, 1947 after he read the   
   Italian translation of the Screwtape Letters (Le Lettere di Berlicche) .   
   Lewis repeatedly states in those letters that schism in the church is sin.   
   The two men write of the joy each had in the other's work.   
   --The Latin Letters of C. S. Lewis (and Don Biovanni Calabria), Translated   
   and edited by Martin Moyhihan, St. Augustine's Press, South Bend, Indiana,   
   1998   
   By the way, Lewis wrote to Father John in Latin- and the Latin is printed in   
   the book on the left pages, English translation on the right.   
      
   >>I thought Sayers was a semi-inkling.   
   Probably so.  She didn't attend the meetings often.   
   >They criticised each others work,   
   >>sometimes quite harshly.   
      
   All the Inklings criticized each other's work, and stringently at times.   
   Witness the Barfield/Lewis wars, etc.   
   Lewis does make the comment that women present at a social gathering changed   
   things.   
   He enjoyed the free give and take of his male friends.  His attitude changed   
   a great deal after Joy came into his life, however.  You can read all this   
   for yourself- it's rather well documented.   
   >   
   > It seemed almost personal in this case, now where is that book...   
   > I suspect sexism, which is a card over played at times, but can be   
   > true.  (Also, if Sayers modeled Harriet Vane on herself, I suspect she   
   > could be a bit grating.   
      
   Sayers did have a certain reputation as being rather strident at times.   
   Certainly not a push-over type.  The sexism charge one hears today about all   
   of this is a modern term and a take on relationships people had many years   
   ago.  The term sexism or sexist  is simply inappropriate in relation to   
   anything C. S. Lewis said or did.   
      
   Blessings,   
   Ann   
      
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