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Paul Elie — Faith Fired by Literature

On Being with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
Episode • Feb 20, 2014 • 51m

Paul Elie — Faith Fired by Literature

The writers Flannery O’Connor and Walker Percy, social activist Dorothy Day, and the Trappist monk Thomas Merton — all four shared a complex Catholic faith. Paul Elie takes us on a kind of literary pilgrimage through a Catholic imagination that still resonates in our time.