Do The Lighthouse: A Novel and Pope Francis have anything in common‪?‬ Cold Drinks, Questions, and Christ

One of Fr Parker's favourite authors, Michael O'Brien, has released a new novel, The Lighthouse: A Novel. It's novel, then, because Fr Parker has a good excuse to try to use the word novel again, except he used it as an adjective. The Lighthouse tells the story of Ethan McQuary a lighthouse keeper who encounters the world and encounters the Divine in the midst of it. Leaning on an interview by Michael O'Brien and recent words by Pope Francis, Fr Parker explores how this novel: A Lighthouse calls us each to community, belonging, and acknowledgement that his might make us uncomfortable.

The interview Fr Parker references is found here:
https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/qa-with-the-lighthouse-author-michael-d-obrien/

An article about the words of Pope Francis can be found here:
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2021-03/pope-francis-iraq-interreligious-meeting-ur-chaldeans.html

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