[lbo-talk] Deathbed conversion of Gramsci

Dorene Cornwell dorenefc at gmail.com
Tue Nov 25 18:49:36 PST 2008


Or one last chance for the good clergy to feel like they might do the patient some good.

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....
> > ___________________________________
>
> 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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