Mary Karr on the joy of conversion
Wednesday November 4, 2009
Categories: Books, music, movies, art, Catholicism
From an interview with acclaimed memoirist Mary Karr: I wonder if finding your faith helped your writing. You say in Lit, when you're cautiously becoming Catholic, "It isn't the ritual of the high Mass that impresses me. But the people--their...
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Mary Karr spoke this afternoon at the Catholic Information Center in Washington, D.C. She was great. And the CIC, which is run by Opus Dei, is also to be commended for hosting someone, who though now a member of "the Pope's team," is in some ways a reluctant draft choice. In any case, she has clearly been touched by grace. And the point she hammered home, although she didn't put it this way, was the rational even scientific nature of faith. That is to say, she tried to pray and found that it worked. She did the experiment and got consistent results.
Welcome home, Mary Karr. Ad multos annos.
I didn't understand the headline for a minute, until I remembered that it is impossible for liberals to be spiritual. Now I get it!! "Catholic" indeed…
Ah, "CONVERSION" not "Conservatism" as I first read. How positively pavlovian of me.
you're both people who never thought they would be spiritual but have become spiritual
The interviewer's use of "spiritual" is what jumped out at me. Heaven forbid that a secular interviewer would actually come out and say, approvingly, that someone is religious.
I guess I disagree with what form of Christianity this woman is touting. I don't think Christianity can be compared to the "power of now or whatever." And I don't think that the Holy Spirit takes many forms. Orthodox, Catholics, and Protestants believe that the Holy Spirit proceeds from God the Father or from the Son, but those are the only forms that the Holy Spirit takes in Christianity as far as I am aware.
Ali,
Perhaps she means that sometimes the Holy Spirit takes the form of a still, small voice; sometimes a whisper, sometimes tongues of fire, and sometimes a shove off a horse.
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