AbstractsLaw & Legal Studies

In one of his many letters to Rose Leicester in The Lake, Father Oliver Gogarty warns her against falling into “a divorce between the world of sense and of the spirit.” Rose was first ostracized and later exiled from her native Ireland for having borne a child out of wedlock, and Gogarty fears that he and the persons in his parish have driven her into a non-Catholic environment where she is losing her faith and, as he puts it, over-indulging in the senses, to the detriment of her spiritual life.