These essays have been written in a year-and-a-half period during which the novel was being developed. The author wrote his PhD dissertation (1975), on imaginative patterns in the Catholic novelist, so religious issues have long found expression in his work including That Kingdom Coming Business, his first book of poetry. A few months before this project began he traveled to northern Italy visiting churches, historical locations and reflecting on the traditions of the era. That experience also influenced his thinking and writing, which is grounded in the research of thousands of pages of historical documents.

• • • • • • • • • • Under the Withering Eye of the Tarot Card

• • • • • • • • • • Psychology, Religion and the Archetypal Feminine
                  • Radical Feminists Are Taking over the Church
                  • My Fantasy Roman Synod
                  • A Pope Francis Dream Scene
                  • Christianity and the War Within
                  • Dreaming the Feminine Down
                  • A Theology of the Body
                  • Searching for Venus/Aphrodite
                  • Religion, Sexuality, and the Absence of Soul
                  • Medieval Nights, Punishing Days
                  • Fiction, Religion, and the Symbolic Path
                  • The Vatican’s Doctrine of Discovery
                  • Guns, Myths, and the Rise of the Feminine
                  • Announcing Trent the Musical
                  • A Terrible Love of War

• • • • • • • • • • Chanting the Feminine Down – An Essay