Contrast between Religious beliefs by Chaucer

[curious]

In his Canturbury Tales Chaucher...has two sketchs of two of the Pilgrims..........
The Prioress Madame Eglantine--a conventional beleiverr who has belief in her faith...yet she is also lacks knowledge of  the certain aspects of her faith--such as actual miricles...as she repeats for her tale...a false tale of Blood libel against Jews in Asia  [at the time the story was written there were no Jews in England for over 250 years]

The Pardoner-is by his own admission a swindler and con artist who expliots sinner fear of hell in order to live very well-in other words he has knowledge of the faith..but no belief.....

[eschator83]

I was an English Lit major (but trying to emphasize Journalism which had no major in my small college).  I'm astonished that Chaucer is included in my EB Great Books set, at least untiil I remember how close Encyclopedia Brittanica and Editor Mortimer Adler came to atheism.  Do you believe Adler converted to Catholicism near the end of his life.  I presume he was curious about Eschatology.  How about you?