Joaquin Mejia absolutely!! My personal favorites are two short stories- Temple of the Holy Ghost and The Enduring Chill. Ooh, and Parker's Back. If you are a writer, absolutely run and get the book Mystery and Manners. It's a collection of essays and talks she gave on writing. Essential.

Joaquin Mejia be sure to read “Wise Blood.”

Joaquin Mejia + Same here. I've come across an article comparing her to Tolkien not in style or genre but in underpinning Thomistic theology in their works as opposed to their contemporary secular writers. The writer said there's an uncanny resemblance between Tolkien's fantastic hobbits and O'Connor's grotesque prophets.

You do need to read her because she is an awesome writer. One of my favorites.

Jessica A. Oh definitely. She was instructed in the Faith by Dominicans, and referred to herself as a hillbilly thomist.

Craig I've been in the south for all my life and i gotta say I'd love to travel north to see the difference in woodlands and to explore some haunted locations 😂

I did the same. I made sure our doors were locked afterwards and am once again considering getting a CCL :(

@@jamessgian7691, thank you.

@@koomo801 , which short story? Thank you.

@@joebound7765 "A Good Man is Hard to Find"

Ricardo Sotosan Friend, I spoke out strongly last week, and the USCCB leadership largely adopted my recommendations. If you have any further ideas how an auxiliary bishop might provide leadership in this regard, I’m all ears.

Bishop Barron, You are a prominent voice in our church today, so pound on the pulpit...overturn the moneychanger's tables...scold your fellow bishops. Call on Cardinal Gomez to release all there is to know what has happened in the LA Diocese of the past 50 years or so. The Church needs to open its doors and windows and come clean. Your insights and intellectual teachings on beauty are an amazing gift, but will be lost on the broader society if their first thought of the Church is sex abuse. Be a loud, booming voice for cleansing in the Church. Do not be afraid. Challenge Pope Francis to clean house starting today. If after forcibly speaking out there is inaction from the top, I think a powerful message from you would be for you to resign from the office of Bishop. Let the hierarchy know that you don't want to be part of their facile and odious club. thank you and Peace.

Bishop Robert Barron I'm sorry for doubting your work, and the other Bishops who are working to resolve this issue. I'm just so upset by all this. I read the Pope's letter earlier today. It was brutally honest but inspiring. God Bless you Bishop.

Bishop Barron, Bishop Barron, With all due respect, the addition of "auxiliary" doesn't make you any less of a bishop, and more importantly, it certainly does not excuse you from the moral imperative to take action against such evil. I suspect many people would echo my opinion that an article, as articulate and thoughtful as it may be, hardly makes the most of your resources and talents. As you have been right to point out many times in the past, videos such as these are an amazing evangelical tool, with the ability to reach millions 24 hrs. a day. That being said, I would remind you of the words written in the book of the prophet Ezekiel, "Whether they hear or refuse to hear (for they are a rebellious house), they shall know that there has been a prophet among them." And again, "You shall speak my words to them, whether they hear or refuse to hear; for they are a rebellious house." That rebellious house, make no mistake, is the hierarchy. If you're genuinely open to ideas as to how you can provide further leadership, speak out publicly and boldly against those in the hierarchy (Wuerl, McCarrick, Farrell, Dolan, etc., etc.) who knew of, perpetrated, and covered up these heinous acts and demand that they resign. Demand that they be stripped of all honors and benefits of their positions and retire to a life of penance. Do not say that you are in no position to ask for such things. Surely, you, a bishop and celebrity, do not have less authority than the laity, who are openly asking for these things? As a convert to Catholicism, I look up to saints like Athanasius, who was willing to go against the whole world for the faith, but I also believe that ours is not a dead faith, but a living tradition in and through which the saints of tomorrow are being formed today. So for Christ's sake, make some noise! Cleanse the Temple, and do some good for the Church!

What the hell is “wise blood?” That makes no sense!

@@alt8791, Flannery O'Connor wrote a novel titled "Wise Blood." The comment above, which you are criticizing, is a reference to that novel and some of the concepts in it. The comment makes very good sense in the context of the book's themes.

His book, "The Second Coming" is truly wonderful.

As she herself said, "For the almost deaf you have to shout. For the almost blind you draw in large and startling figures."

thats not at all what the title means, its a good story

Brian Kelly it's a story for grown ups.

A shocking story, indeed, intended to shock.

It's not really so horrible as all that. It's point is to draw a stark contrast between the grandmother, with her superficial views, and the more deeply felt involvement with Christ experienced by the Misfit, who realizes that Christ "threw everything off balance," and that there was nothing to do but take up one's cross and follow him, or else practice some meanness. The Misfit, of course, chooses the latter, and in his wrongful choice we're led to understand that despite his rather deep understanding of Christ, in his rejection he has forsaken his own soul.