Our Father's House

Edited by Mariella Gable, O.S.B. “Catholic” fiction is notoriously difficult to describe, let alone define. In Our Father’s House, Mariella Gable, O.S.B., presents twenty-eight stories that can properly be called “Catholic.” They are Catholic stories “of the center,” stories of saints and sinners alike who are members of the Father’s House, the Church; they are stories from the concentric circles which ring the center—stories whose atmospheres are thickly fragrant with the mystery of Christ and his Church, the prayers and practices and penances; stories which reckon unflinchingly with the problem of evil and the material and formal cooperation of ordinary men and women with that selfsame evil. Fiction is about people—persons. Catholic fiction is about persons dedicated in a special way to the development of full personality. ( Mariella Gable, O.S.B.) The substance of Catholic fiction is a record of “the dramatic conflict, the success and failure, of those who are aware of life as an