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Rhonda Franklin Ortiz is a novelist, a founding editor of Chrism Press, and editor in chief of Dappled Things. Find her online at rhondaortiz.com.
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Investigating the art of murder mysteries: An interview with Fiorella De Maria

June 12, 2024 Rhonda Franklin Ortiz 2

“There is, however, another good work that is done by detective stories,” G. K. Chesterton wrote in 1901. “While it is the constant tendency of the Old Adam to rebel against so universal and automatic […]

Books

Popular fiction and the Catholic Literary Renaissance

April 25, 2021 Rhonda Franklin Ortiz 24

I admire anyone who has the guts to write anything at all.” — E.B. White The novel Cheaper by the Dozen saved my life. Like every student who passes through St. John’s College’s Great Books […]

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Of fairy tales and vampires: A conversation with novelist Karen Ullo

August 25, 2017 Rhonda Franklin Ortiz 3

“Redemption stories never get old,” says Ullo. “Every day in the life of every human is a story of sin and redemption.” […]

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Dawn Eden on allowing God to heal our memories

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In 2012, theologian and childhood-abuse survivor Dawn Eden published My Peace I Give You: Healing Sexual Wounds with the Help of the Saints (Ave Maria Press), in which she briefly mentions the idea of God […]

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