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Casilda
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ifacs.com/blog/2014/03/31/confessions-of-a-reluctant-catholic/
About writing in a Catholic voice,
“But fiction revealed something else as well, something that I found I was stumbling on again and again in my own pursuit, and that was the very simple notion that fiction revealed our human heart’s need for it. Fiction itself, even the most pessimistic fiction, the most absurdist fiction, revealed our need to see the stuff of life made into something that stands against time. Fiction itself—the making of stories and novels—revealed our determination not to be trumped by death. It revealed our determination to be redeemed.”
I just found her bio interesting as a contrast to my own. We grew up at the same time almost, yet her parents remained in the church and accepted the changes post V2 when my parents fled the church. She rebelled against the church and God, I always held God close but we both eventually returned to the church.
About writing in a Catholic voice,
“But fiction revealed something else as well, something that I found I was stumbling on again and again in my own pursuit, and that was the very simple notion that fiction revealed our human heart’s need for it. Fiction itself, even the most pessimistic fiction, the most absurdist fiction, revealed our need to see the stuff of life made into something that stands against time. Fiction itself—the making of stories and novels—revealed our determination not to be trumped by death. It revealed our determination to be redeemed.”
I just found her bio interesting as a contrast to my own. We grew up at the same time almost, yet her parents remained in the church and accepted the changes post V2 when my parents fled the church. She rebelled against the church and God, I always held God close but we both eventually returned to the church.