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March 13th, 2006

You'll have to excuse my sparse posts while I continue to drudge through the week of comprehensive exams. It'll all be over on Saturday and you, my one faithful reader, can be assured of a return to our regularly scheduled program.

Until then....

Matthew Lickona, author of "Swimming with Scapulars: True Confessions of a Young Catholic", also has a blog called Godsbody. The name intrigued me I must say. I hear numerous things about the body during the course of my days here at the Institute and it definitely gets a girl thinking. Matthew recently interviewed Anne Rice, native of my home state and author of those cool, creepy, best-selling Vampire novels (come on you know you saw the movie, Tom Cruise with fangs...eerily appropriate isn't it?). Her most recent book, "Christ the Lord" seems an interesting change in pace from the long toothed, night crawlers of the south, not to mention an interesting development in her faith life. In the interview she talks some about her journey away from and slowly back toward the Catholic Church. Addressing the issue that her son is homosexual and that in some way she hopes that the Church would change her teaching on the matter. Before you grimace again read this quote of hers on the matter and the whole interview, if you have a chance. She may be a little short of orthodox but her reflections are definitely at the heart of the matter.

"...she does acknowledge that a reversal of the teaching [on homosexuality] "would be a huge revolution, because it really would be a divorce of sex and procreation. I don't know the answer. I'm just beginning to study the theology that pertains to this, and it's awe-inspiring."
She understands that the body matters, not least because Christ took one at the Incarnation. "Jesus had a body; He came and lived in a body, and died in a body."
Pondering that, meditating on that, trying to give that some meaning, "is something that you can do all your life."

Thoughts?