
Flannery O’Connor and the Devil’s Territory
COMMENTARY: Novelist of grace and grittiness said: ‘I write the way I do because and only because I am a Catholic.’
COMMENTARY: Novelist of grace and grittiness said: ‘I write the way I do because and only because I am a Catholic.’
COMMENTARY: Mockery’s eternal prisoner lurks behind every scornful jeer and acquiescence to the devil.
In a lengthy interview today with Italian state television, Pope Francis discussed a wide range of themes including dealing with pain, suffering, the importance of hope, women’s gifts, the reality of the devil, the war in Ukraine, and conflicts around the world, many of which are unseen.
EWTN docudrama, reairing this weekend and Monday, retells the Parable of the Prodigal Son.
BOOK PICK: ‘Christ Versus Satan in Our Daily Lives’
Father François-Marie Dermine, promoter of an annual international course on exorcism in Rome, discusses his recent popular work about the devil, offering keys to discernment on this controversial and sensitive topic.
“A life absent of faith ... is already fertile ground for an extraordinary action of the devil.”
Jacques Collin de Plancy was an atheist who wrote a peculiar book about demons — but in 1830, he became Catholic, convinced by the reality of evil and the need to counter it.
“What have you to do with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the appointed time?” (Matthew 8:29)
Pope Francis quoted St. Augustine of Hippo, who wrote in The City of God that “the Church progresses on her pilgrimage amidst this world's persecutions and God's consolations.”
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