{"id":2652,"date":"2007-03-09T13:02:59","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T13:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/03\/where-your-literary-and-spiritual-worlds-meet.html"},"modified":"2007-03-09T13:02:59","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T13:02:59","slug":"where-your-literary-and-spiritual-worlds-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/03\/where-your-literary-and-spiritual-worlds-meet.html","title":{"rendered":"Where your literary and spiritual worlds meet:"},"content":{"rendered":"

Novelist Ron Hansen was ordained a permanent deacon last month:<\/a><\/p>\n

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As a deacon, Hansen will work in campus ministry, mainly preaching and assisting with Masses and performing weddings in the Mission Church, said Jack Treacy, S.J., campus ministry director.<\/p>\n

But while Hansen is now a clergyman in the Catholic Church, he doesn’t plan on proclaiming that in pages of his upcoming novels.<\/p>\n

"My novels will not be written by ‘The Rev. Ronald Hansen,’ " he said. "Being a deacon shouldn’t have any effect on the readers if I do the fiction properly."<\/p>\n

Rev. Tony Mancuso, director of formation for the Diocese of San Jose, said one of the most important roles of a deacon is to preach, and he expected Hansen would be more than up to the task.<\/p>\n

"He certainly has all the words," Mancuso said of the writer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"Stay\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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My favorite Hansen books are Mariette in Ecstasy<\/em>, <\/a><\/p>\n

Atticus<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

there’s a lot of good stuff in <\/em>A Stay Against Confusion: Essays on Faith and Fiction<\/em><\/a>, as well.<\/p>\n

Hansen also wrote the intro for the Loyola Classics edition of Edwin O’Connor’s The Edge of Sadness<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n

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(Found at Kevin Jones’ blog)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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