Into the Wardrobe

Firstly, let's get the facts straight: "Paddy" Moore (Edward Courtnay Francis "Paddy" Moore) was the name of Lewis' war buddy, and not the name of his mother (her name was Janie King Moore).

Lewis vowed to care for his friend's mother, which he honored. In fact, Mrs. Moore, Lewis, and his brother, Warnie, purchased "The Kilns" jointly, with title to the property being taken solely in the name of Mrs. Moore with the two brothers holding rights of life tenancy.

Whether or not there was a sexual relationship, I believe, is irrelevant. There are scholars on both sides of the fence who claim they have evidence to back up their theory.

If it bothers anybody to think that there might have been any hanky panky, perhaps it would put your mind at ease to know that C. S. Lewis was, at that time in his life, a devout atheist. It's been said that once he become a Christian, he ended any relationship he might have had with Mrs. Moore.

This topic draws so much attention and emotion! Not so much here in the Wardrobe, but among those who -- with what one critic once called "a dirty delicacy" -- try to prove that Jack Lewis died a virgin, with nothing between him and "Minto" OR Joy Gresham Lewis, and further that it somehow matters.

[Or, as I should have added, those who try to prove he wasn't]

It's a bit like those who speculate that the Apostle Paul was gay.
[And, I must injerject, I have never been one who did.]
It has nothing to do with the subjects about which, they wrote, Christ and Christian living. Neither writer would want himself to become the topic.

If it's a wishful attempt to "canonize"a "St. Clive", I doubt the Vatican would go along. Come to think of it, did Rome have to approve Paul's santhood with a capital "S"?