Taking faith seriously …

… Spark’s Chance Grace by Christopher J. Scalia | Articles | First Things. (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Spark’s Catholicism is difficult to categorize. The protagonist of The Comforters is described as a “critical but conforming” Catholic who believed “that the True Church was awful, though unfortunately, one couldn’t deny, true.” It seems fair to apply this description to Spark herself. Her biographer, Martin Stannard, reports that the loss of the Latin Mass upset her, but also says that she doesn’t seem to have actually attended church very often. She once commented that “Some of the Church’s teachings are very foolish,” suggesting that its emphasis on natural law in contraception contradicted its emphasis on “supernatural law” elsewhere.

The genuine practice of faith is as personal as the practice of poetry or music or any art.