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Ave Maria in the Afternoon – August 9, 2024 – Hour 2

We continue our look at the Sunday Gospel and John 6 with Rob Corzine and discuss Pope Francis’ recent comments on literature.

 

“I am the bread that came down from heaven”

In last Sunday’s Gospel Jesus delivered his famous Bread of Life discourse. The teachings will continue for the next few weeks as we work our way through the sixth chapter of John’s Gospel. Rob Corzine joins us to continue the conversation.

Robert Corzine is Vice President of Academic Programs for the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology. He was received into the Catholic Church in 1994 and has held teaching and advocacy positions for several Catholic apostolates, including work as an apologist and catechetical writer for Catholics United for the Faith and as producer and host of a weekly Catholic radio program on apologetics and evangelization. Host of EWTN’s Genesis to Jesus with Dr. Scott Hahn, Rob holds a degree in Humanities and Catholic Culture from Franciscan University.

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What did Pope Francis say about the importance of literature?

Pope Francis has written a new letter to the faithful exploring the importance of literature in forming the human person. Joshua Hren joins us with a look at what he said and how you can read, and write, like a Catholic.

Joshua Hren is an novelist, father, and husband. He is founder and editor of Wiseblood Books and co-founder of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of St. Thomas, Houston. Joshua regularly publishes essays and poems in such journals as The Los Angeles Review of Books and First Things, America and Public Discourse, New Polity and The Hedgehog Review, Genealogies of Modernity and Commonweal, National Review and The University Bookman, and Religion and Literature and LOGOS. Joshua has published seven books: the short story collections This Our Exile and In the Wine Press; a book of poems called Last Things, First Things, & Other Lost Causes; Middle-earth and the Return of the Common Good: J.R.R. Tolkien and Political Philosophy; How to Read (and Write) Like a Catholic; a novel Infinite Regress; and the theological-aesthetical manifesto Contemplative Realism. Joshua's More than a Matter of Taste: The Moral Imagination and the Spirit of Literature is forthcoming in 2026. His second novel, Blue Walls Falling Down, is forthcoming in August of 2024.

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