Might be an interesting exercise in intellectual history to look at any common threads of Gramsci and liberation theology and see if there are any common roots. Not really something I am equipped to do and probably not something anyone on this list is going to jump on but still hypothetically interesting.
As for G getting buried in the Protestant cemetary I am always amused by the bizarre theological motivations behind the hot issue of who gets which cemetary real estate.
DC
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:33:45 -0500 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> writes:
> > God, I hope this doesn't happen to me....
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> The atheist philosopher George Santayana spent his
> last years, living at the Convent of the Blue Nuns of the Little
> Company of Mary on the Celian Hill in Rome,
> where he was cared for by the sisters there. It is
> said that when he was dying, he informed his friends
> that there might be reports following his death that
> he had undergone a deathbed conversion, but
> that any such reports shouldn't be taken
> very seriously.
>
> In the case of Gramsci, I think it is quite
> possible that he had taken final sacraments and
> all that jazz that Catholics are supposed to
> do whey are about to kick off this mortal
> coil. But I suspect that by then, he was,
> if conscious at all, just barely so, and
> probably not at all cognizant of what
> was going on at that point. The
> Catholic Church, especially in those
> days was not shy about pushing such
> things to people on their deathbeds,
> on the supposition that no matter how
> far gone they might appear to be, they
> might still be sufficiently aware to make
> a last moment conversion.
>
> Jim F.
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