He was concerned with the crippling poverty of London during his lifetime, when two million people bordered on starvation. Wilde was very much concerned with politics and society. Needless to say, Wilde was indeed a thinker and is difficult to categorize. Wilde seems to have respected the validity of science, and he worried about the corrupting force human nature and arrogance had on religious institutions–possibly to the point of disrupting any chance of genuine spirituality. They make their God first and worship him afterwards. People fashion their God after their own understanding. Religions die when they are proved to be true. Some things Wilde wrote indicate a more nuanced and thoughtful view of religion and society. Ultimately, Wilde officially converted to Catholicism as he lay on his deathbed, therefore dying a Catholic. And his lifelong friend–and sometimes lover–Robert Ross, convinced Wilde to avoid Catholic conversion because he feared it would disrupt their relationship. His father, an outspoken agnostic, didn’t want Wilde to join the Catholic Church, partially because he feared Wilde wouldn’t be allowed in to the predominantly Anglican Oxford University–which he ultimately was. įurthermore, those close to Wilde always discouraged his interest in Catholicism.
And the main character of his book, The Picture of Dorian Gray, (often considered an adaptation of Wilde himself) desired to join the Catholic Church–but instead succumbed to vanity and vice. It seems he always wanted to be a Catholic, and even attended Mass and benediction, however occasionally, through all of his life. The problem was the denomination Wilde pledged his allegiance to. Since Christ the dead world has woke up from sleep. This began the duality of Anglicanism/Catholicism that plagued Wilde throughout his life. However, at some point during his fourth or fifth year, Wilde’s mother had him secretly baptized into the Catholic Church. He was baptized in the year of his birth at St. Many speculate his death was a result of syphilis. He died in Paris, France of cerebral meningitis in 1900. He grew up there, though he received much of his schooling in Enniskillen, in what is now Northern Ireland.
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Oscar Wilde, whose full name was Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde, was born in Dublin, Ireland.
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