RC in TRP WAS RE: Hitler's Pope

[Doug Millison]

Speaking of disintermediation, one of my favorite moments in M&D is when
Quaker Dixon teaches Mason how they meditate in church, sitting quiet and
still, waiting for the Spirit to descend. When Mason tries it, he just
falls asleep. But it would seem that the method works for Dixon. TRP is
rather rough on the Catholic church in M&D -- the Jesuits are bad guys,
aren't they? -- and he further develops his elite/preterite issue out of
the Protestant tradition.  He's taken great pains to make Rev. Cherrycoke a
pretty likeable guy, not surprisingly since we're going to be spending
quite a bit of time in his company as we read the novel, although Mason and
Dixon don't seem to be terribly fond of the Rev. I still haven't read _The
Gnostic Pynchon_ but I've heard that it discusses in some detail the way
TRP deals with religion in his writing.

Does Pynchon specifically mention the Pope in GR? Or elsewhere in his writing?



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