{"id":25103,"date":"2009-11-20T20:35:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T00:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/11\/flannery-oconnor-the-only-grea\/"},"modified":"2009-11-20T20:35:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T00:35:05","slug":"flannery-oconnor-the-only-grea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/11\/flannery-oconnor-the-only-grea\/","title":{"rendered":"Flannery O&#8217;Connor: the only great Christian writer in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Flannery%20O%27Connor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Flannery O'Connor.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2009\/11\/Flannery O'Connor-thumb-250x300-5057.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a>Encountering the grace through the literature is a sufficient way of knowing Christ and the fruitfulness of the Gospel. For many, myself included, Mary Flannery O&#8217;Connor is wonderful entree into the Mystery of God. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/episodes\/november-20-2009\/flannery-oconnor\/5043\/\">Watch the story<\/a>, I think you&#8217;d surprised by what you&#8217;d learn.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Flannery O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s stories were instrumental in at least one conversion to Catholicism that I am aware of. And she seems to have introduced him to Saint Thomas Aquinas who then led him eventually to the acceptance of a vocation in the Catholic priesthood. Dominican Father Thomas Joseph White talks about O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s influence in his life.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Be sure to read the extended interviews of the people interviewed in the centerpiece.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>An interview on this topic will be broadcast on PBS&#8217;s &#8220;Religion and Ethics Weekly&#8221; on Sunday, 22 November (look for local listings).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.gcsu.edu\/library\/sc\/foc.html\">The Flannery O&#8217;Connor Collection<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The New Georgia Encyclopedia entry for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgiaencyclopedia.org\/nge\/Article.jsp?id=h-498\">Flannery O&#8217;Connor<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Encountering the grace through the literature is a sufficient way of knowing Christ and the fruitfulness of the Gospel. For many, myself included, Mary Flannery O&#8217;Connor is wonderful entree into the Mystery of God. Watch the story, I think you&#8217;d surprised by what you&#8217;d learn. Flannery O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s stories were instrumental in at least one conversion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/11\/flannery-oconnor-the-only-grea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flannery O&#8217;Connor: the only great Christian writer in the US<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1778,2072,2237],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}