Ah, more ingredients to the stew..
In 1998 Ms. Rice rejoined the Roman Catholic Church for the first time since suffering a "total breakdown of faith" at age 18. "That was in 1960, before Vatican II, and I was a very strictly brought-up Catholic," she explained. "I lost my faith because what I had been taught was so wrong." An overwhelming desire to "return to the banquet table" and assurances from a priest in New Orleans that she didn't have to resolve all her differences with the church (most notably over the issue of homosexuality) led to the reconciliation.
(I believe Rice's son is homosexual)
Ms. Rice, however, does not suffer casual observations. "Only people who don't know my books," she said gravely, would perceive the change as a major shift. A clumsy question about demons provoked an icy response: "I never wrote about demons. Have you ever read my books?" In particular, Ms. Rice bristles at the notion, held by some ill-informed persons, that her vampire books are light amoral entertainment. "I think they're very Christian books," she insisted, "by somebody outside the church, lost in the darkness, striving to find meaning and sometimes being rebellious."
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