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Anne Rice: 'Stations on a Journey’
The best-selling author gives up writing about vampires to write about the ‘ultimate supernatural hero’–Jesus Christ. By Marcia Z. Nelson http://images.beliefnet.com/imgs/x.gif http://images.beliefnet.com/imgs/x_ccc.gif
Decades and books later, the influence of Catholic friends and intense curiosity about Jesus and his times slowly nudged her back to faith, but not without soul-searching. “I spent a year tearing my hair out over moral questions,” she said. One afternoon in 1998 she asked her assistant to recommend a priest who might hear her confession, a Catholic rite of penitence. “She said, ‘I know the perfect person, and he’s there now,’” Rice recalls. After a two-hour–“maybe even three”–session with her confessor, Rice returned to the Church, setting aside her reservations, especially the Catholic Church’s stance on homosexuality. (Rice’s son, Christopher, is gay.) “I said, ‘I will leave these things in the hands of God.’”
“In 2002 I made up my mind that I would not write anything that wasn’t for Christ,” the former vampire queen explained. The title of her latest novel stakes out Rice’s new preoccupation. “Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt” tells the story of a young Jesus from his point of view: a 7-year-old boy who is discovering his powers and his identity.
The best-selling author gives up writing about vampires to write about the ‘ultimate supernatural hero’–Jesus Christ. By Marcia Z. Nelson http://images.beliefnet.com/imgs/x.gif http://images.beliefnet.com/imgs/x_ccc.gif
Decades and books later, the influence of Catholic friends and intense curiosity about Jesus and his times slowly nudged her back to faith, but not without soul-searching. “I spent a year tearing my hair out over moral questions,” she said. One afternoon in 1998 she asked her assistant to recommend a priest who might hear her confession, a Catholic rite of penitence. “She said, ‘I know the perfect person, and he’s there now,’” Rice recalls. After a two-hour–“maybe even three”–session with her confessor, Rice returned to the Church, setting aside her reservations, especially the Catholic Church’s stance on homosexuality. (Rice’s son, Christopher, is gay.) “I said, ‘I will leave these things in the hands of God.’”
“In 2002 I made up my mind that I would not write anything that wasn’t for Christ,” the former vampire queen explained. The title of her latest novel stakes out Rice’s new preoccupation. “Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt” tells the story of a young Jesus from his point of view: a 7-year-old boy who is discovering his powers and his identity.