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Article: At last, Oscar Wilde wins praise from the Vatican.(News)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- July 17, 2009
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Byline: Mail Foreign Service
LONG condemned by the Vatican as an immoral homosexual, Oscar Wilde appears to have earned a reprieve from the church to which he turned on his deathbed.
A review in the paper L'Osservatore Romano - seen as the official mouthpiece of Pope Benedict XVI - describes the playwright and poet as a man who was 'always looking for the beautiful and the good, but also for God'.
Wilde, who converted to Roman Catholicism as he lay dying in a Paris hotel bed in 1900, served two years in prison for acts of gross indecency with men and his behaviour shocked strait-laced Victorian England.
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