‘Wildcat’: New Film About Flannery O’Connor Shows ‘God Can Deliver His Grace in Any Way’
Actress Maya Hawke portrays O’Connor, and her father, Ethan Hawke, directed, co-wrote, and produced the film.
Actress Maya Hawke portrays O’Connor, and her father, Ethan Hawke, directed, co-wrote, and produced the film.
COMMENTARY: Novelist of grace and grittiness said: ‘I write the way I do because and only because I am a Catholic.’
O’Connor, writing to a priest friend, made a comment that revealed her compassion and humility: ‘The thing about Lourdes is that you are not inclined to pray there for yourself …’
Southern sensibility suggests slowing down to get a fair read of novelist Flannery O’Connor
Both found joy in the lives God had given them.
O’Connor wrote about losers and misfits; Scorsese makes films about them; Springsteen sings of them.
Flannery O'Connor's name will be replaced on the Loyola residence hall with that of Sr. Thea, whose cause for canonization was opened in 2018 by the Diocese of Jackson.
COMMENTARY: When we read stories of holiness, we live vicariously through those stories, and then we body them forth in our reality.
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