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Notre Dame’s A. Scott Appleby reviews a new book about the ways American culture has imaged Jesus

Ann Rice, here: Anne Rice, the author who gave new life to the undead, lives in a house full of saints. Her library holds six 15-inch to 2 ½-foot-high statues, including a porcelain Virgin Mary and Child dressed in embroidered velvet and stiff, gold lace. Almost life-sized wooden figures of Mary and of St. Lucy,…

Your review seems more to me like a desperate attempt to confirm your own faith and conceal your own doubts and speculations. You know this “fear” thing is a pretty much constant theme in these letters, which I find very curious. It’s as if people think that believers must never have thought anything through, worked…

Joseph’s, at least. (That’s what I get for washing dishes while he “eats”)
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