Anne Rice returns to RC faitih

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Always good to hear about someone returning to the faith. Ms. Rice has a real skill for description. Long ago, when I read “Interview with the Vampire”, I could actually feel the heat and humidity, and hear the insects chirping in the bayou at midnight. And this was on a cold, cloudy February afternoon in northern Indiana!
 
I read in an interview with her son that she’s been pestering her parish priests, telling them the Church should make gay marriage a sacrament.
 
I read in an interview with her son that she’s been pestering her parish priests, telling them the Church should make gay marriage a sacrament.
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Yours in Christ,
Thursday
 
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And she’s used legends of the boy Messiah’s miracles from the noncanonical Apocrypha: bringing clay birds to life, striking a bully dead and resurrecting him.
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It looks like her work will not be orthodox.
 
That’s just an assumption. There are many orthodox Bible scholars that say that the non-cannonical books, while not insprired, carry much insight into the lives of Jesus and the apostles. Her work might surprise us and I hope it does. 🙂
 
For what it’s worth, Anne Rice has had an ad in the “Catholic” Jesuit magazine *America * for several years. I noticed it there probably four or five years ago when I had a subscription (before I realized that the magazine isn’t orthodox). So, I assume that she has always maintained some sort of Catholic identity.

In addition to her vampire novels, she also wrote pornography under the pseudonym A.N. Roquelaure (a series based on Sleeping Beauty).

I pray that her faith journey brings her home to the true Church, and that she somehow finds a way to undo all the damage her books have done.

'thann
 
From an interview with her son, the novelist Christopher Rice, who is gay himself:

CHRISTOPHER: People often ask if I was disturbed by your return to the Catholic church, given my sexuality. Truth is I never gave it much thought. I was more concerned with how the priests were going to handle an aggressively progressive parishioner like yourself. You’ve changed parishes as a result of your move, and just the other day you described to me how you made a speech to an anti-abortion activist who was waiting for you outside the church. How do you handle attending church with people whose political viewpoints are so different from your own?

ANNE: Well, I have become good friends with two of the parish priests. They are generous of heart and simple of soul in the best way. The New Orleans openness extends to Jefferson Parish. I have never heard anyone in the parish say a harsh word about my transgressive writings. And as you know, I have never made any effort to convert you. As a Catholic, I believe gay marriage must be accepted. We must legalize it and accept it in our churches as sacrament.

christopherricebooks.com/interrogations.html
 
As a Catholic, I believe gay marriage must be accepted. We must legalize it and accept it in our churches as sacrament.
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So much for her reverting.
And I really resent being told I “must”, as a Catholic, jump on her heterodox bandwagon. :mad:
 
Let’s hope and pray she is just taking small steps back to being fully in line with the teaching of the magisterium!
 
One cleric wrote to Anne Rice after reading her new book on Jesus:

As to the potential effect of Christ the Lord on readers: those who already know and love Jesus will find images and scenes to feed and deepen their prayer; those who know little of Jesus may be attracted and enticed to draw closer to him; those who do not know him at all or who up to this point have resisted him may find themselves wanting to learn more about him.
 
Now is probably the best time to take a wait and see attitude. Let us pray for the best and wait with hope.
 
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From an interview with her son, the novelist Christopher Rice, who is gay himself:

CHRISTOPHER: People often ask if I was disturbed by your return to the Catholic church, given my sexuality. Truth is I never gave it much thought. I was more concerned with how the priests were going to handle an aggressively progressive parishioner like yourself. You’ve changed parishes as a result of your move, and just the other day you described to me how you made a speech to an anti-abortion activist who was waiting for you outside the church. How do you handle attending church with people whose political viewpoints are so different from your own?

ANNE: Well, I have become good friends with two of the parish priests. They are generous of heart and simple of soul in the best way. The New Orleans openness extends to Jefferson Parish. I have never heard anyone in the parish say a harsh word about my transgressive writings. And as you know, I have never made any effort to convert you. As a Catholic, I believe gay marriage must be accepted. We must legalize it and accept it in our churches as sacrament.

christopherricebooks.com/interrogations.html
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Oh, bother. 😦 I guess I won’t be reading her new book, then.
 
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Oh, bother. 😦 I guess I won’t be reading her new book, then.
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What’s the saying? “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover…” Of course I’ll have to admit that it wont exactly be on the top of my reading list either…

Pax,
Dean
 
Sure, her stance on homosexuality is atrocious, but what I would like to focus on that didn’t seem to bother anyone else is the fact that as a result of becoming Catholic she’s gonna stop writing in the horror/Gothic genre.

That is a real shame. This shows, almost as much as her political stances, that her thought is so very unorthodox. Horror is THE genre that Christians should be into. It’s the only one where we are allowed to discuss spiritual issues and creatively explore the afterlife and the like.

Consider the horror writings of Russell Kirk or the new excellent film “The Exorcism of Emily Rose.”

-Everyman
 
Let me give you another perspective. Anne Rice bought and preserved the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Chapel (an adjunct chapel to St. Alphonsus Parish (disbanded? now a museum and Irish cultural center) and St. Anne’s Orphanage. Both of these places would have been destroyed. St. Alphonsus was her home church as a child. It was the church of my mother’s family in the Irish Channel of New Orleans. My mother made countless novenas in the OLPH Chapel. My great grandmother was abandoned and placed in St. Anne’s. Ann Rice bought them and preserved them for the Irish of New Orleans. She has my prayers.
 
Let’s just hope she doesn’t go the Dan Brown route. One’s bad enough.
 
Let’s remember that Norma McCorvy didn’t not go from pro-abortion to Pro-Life Catholic in one fell swoop. There were fits and starts along the way and when she made her first forays into the pro-life movement she believed that abortion was okay in cases of rape and incest.

Hopefully Anne Rice will encounter the right people who can walk with her on her journey home. Admittedly, the fact that her son is gay is probably the biggest obstacle.
 
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