[Williams]

It's my impression she's a bit of a kook, maybe a very intelligent one. I'm Catholic, but a study of the history of the early Church, and of Judaism, certainly offers reasons why the Jews and Christians survived. Rice has "discovered" this would have been impossible and the explanation is that Christ rose from the dead. In a sense, because the Christian doctrine of life after death certainly was its biggest selling point.

Note she became a lapsed Catholic and wrote her dark novels after attending a university. She claims existentialism and other philosophies had been "denied" to her as a Catholic. Funny, but as a Catholic I've always been interested in other philosophies and religions. No one was "denying" her anything.

[RobbyS]

She shares the hope, fostered by many "liberal;--and probably homosexual priests, that her son's "sexual orientation" is not fatal to his soul.