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Timothy Murphy’s Return to the Faith
Timothy Murphy left the the Catholic Church his junior year of college, in part because he saw the faith as incompatible with is homosexuality, and only began his journey back many years later after receiving a fateful call from an old friend just as he had loaded his double-barreled shotgun and was preparing to kill [...]
Free Book Alert
Lovers of Catholic fiction won’t want to miss out on a book giveaway taking place Tuesday and Wednesday (April 2nd and 3rd) of this week. Tuscany Press is releasing its first short story collection, the 2012 Tuscany Prize for Catholic Fiction, and to mark the event they are giving away free Kindle copies of the book [...]
Today is Friday: Hemingway’s Crucifixion Story
Ernest Hemingway wrote a haunting rendering of Christ’s crucifixion in a little known four-page play entitled “Today is Friday,” originally published in the collection Men Without Women. The play begins in archetypal Hemingway fashion. The action is off-stage, has already happened. Three men enter a “drinking-place” at eleven o’clock at night, and immediately they talk [...]