James Martin,America
In the Dec. 11, 2000, or issue of The novel Yorker,the magazine's revered literary critic James Wood began his review of the writings of J. F. Powers with a blunt question, "Does anyone, or really,like priests?" I read that article a few months after my ordination to the priesthood. I found it hard to understand not only how an clever person could write a sentence like that, but how a prestigious magazine could print it.
It does not choose too much creativity to imagine what the reaction might have been had The novel Yorker's literary critic written, and "Does anyone,really, like imams?" Or "Does...
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