{"id":2865,"date":"2006-04-21T10:05:44","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T10:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/sinners-welcome.html"},"modified":"2006-04-21T10:05:44","modified_gmt":"2006-04-21T10:05:44","slug":"sinners-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/sinners-welcome.html","title":{"rendered":"Sinners Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amywelborn.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/sinners.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"151\" alt=\"Sinners\" src=\"https:\/\/amywelborn.typepad.com\/openbook\/images\/sinners.jpg\" width=\"100\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/04\/13\/AR2006041302017.html\">The WaPo reviews Mary Karr&#8217;s book of poetry, reflective of her conversion to Catholicism<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>If you appreciated the irreverent voice of Mary Karr&#8217;s The Liars&#8217; Club , you can find it again in &quot;Facing Altars: Poetry and Prayer,&quot; the afterword to her fourth book of poems, Sinners Welcome . Chronicling a move from &quot;undiluted agnosticism&quot; to tempered Catholicism, Karr begins, &quot;To confess my unlikely Catholicism in Poetry &#8212; the journal that first published some of the godless twentieth-century disillusionaries of J. Alfred Prufrock and his pals &#8212; feels like an act of perversion kinkier than any dildo-wielding dominatrix could manage on HBO&#8217;s &#8216;Real Sex Extra.&#8217; &quot; But poetry, with its penchant for image as well as idea, has always served as a bridge between the sacred and the mundane, so it is no surprise that Karr, a poet long before she wrote her well-known memoir, turned to her roots when life seemed to have turned its back on her. However, it took her son&#8217;s desire to attend church &#8212; &quot;to see if God&#8217;s there&quot; &#8212; to get Karr into the congregation.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/gate\/archive\/2006\/03\/27\/findrelig.DTL\">Here&#8217;s Karr&#8217;s &quot;Finding My Religion&quot; interview with the SanFranGate from a month ago.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>i<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WaPo reviews Mary Karr&#8217;s book of poetry, reflective of her conversion to Catholicism If you appreciated the irreverent voice of Mary Karr&#8217;s The Liars&#8217; Club , you can find it again in &quot;Facing Altars: Poetry and Prayer,&quot; the afterword to her fourth book of poems, Sinners Welcome . Chronicling a move from &quot;undiluted agnosticism&quot;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sinners Welcome - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/sinners-welcome.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sinners Welcome - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The WaPo reviews Mary Karr&#8217;s book of poetry, reflective of her conversion to Catholicism If you appreciated the irreverent voice of Mary Karr&#8217;s The Liars&#8217; Club , you can find it again in &quot;Facing Altars: Poetry and Prayer,&quot; the afterword to her fourth book of poems, Sinners Welcome . 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