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Flannery O’Connor

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“The Office” and…Flannery O’Connor?

July 6, 2019 Lauren Enk Mann 6

This week The Office, the Steve-Carrell-led TV satire, made headlines to the tune of fan outrage when it was announced that Netflix lost its long-held rights to the show when the streaming service was outbid […]

Essay

Rules for Christian Intellectuals, Part III

June 30, 2019 Dr. Kelly Scott Franklin 11

The world is falling apart. Gunmen kill civilians in office buildings and schools; babies die in wars and in abortion clinics. People suffer poverty, sexual violence, hunger. Our planet is rife with racism and tyranny […]

Books

An insightful detective story reaffirming the value of every single life

July 17, 2018 Dr. Kelly Scott Franklin 1

Fiorella De Maria’s second Father Gabriel mystery, The Vanishing Woman, goes beyond the simplicity of much crime-fiction to offer a portrait of the long-term costs of war. […]

The Dispatch

Doubt and faith in a secular age

February 27, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 4

Some Lenten lessons in belief from Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Mother Teresa, and Flannery O’Connor. […]

Essay

Diving into eternity

February 17, 2018 David Paul Deavel 6

True knowledge of God can only be had in the midst of a life for which all work is undertaken based on prayer and all […]

The Dispatch

“Fundamentally a missionary”: New book captures Bishop Barron’s evangelistic vision

January 12, 2018 Gregory J. Sullivan 16

A review of To Light a Fire on the Earth: Proclaiming the Gospel in a Secular Age, by Bishop Robert Barron, with John L. Allen, Jr. […]

Editorial

In gratitude for the gift of the “Catechism of the Catholic Church”

October 11, 2017 Carl E. Olson 23

How I learned that reading and studying the Catechism, Church doctrine and dogma, and theology are not ultimately about knowing things or facts but about knowing […]

Books

Wiseblood Books publishes “literature that possesses a sacramental vision of reality”

August 11, 2017 Carl E. Olson 4

Flannery O’Connor, says Joshua Hren, “raised some crucial problems: in literary works written in a world that lives as though God is dead, do we need […]

Essay

The spiritual witness of Flannery O’Connor

August 2, 2017 Amy Welborn 15

The question sometimes comes up: “Where should I start with Flannery O’Connor?” Perhaps the person posing the question has never read O’Connor at all. Or he might have encountered one of her widely anthologized stories […]

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