Healthy fiction, no matter how wildly it may depart from the material order, teaches us to love ourselves in a wholesome manner by loving our neighbor. Indeed, even by loving our enemies - at least by trying to learn to… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be engaged in the long labor of perfecting the tools of his art. Yet the work itself need not… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
Corrupt fantasy points us, or forms us, in a consciousness that can lead to thinking that evil is good and good is evil. In… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I am coming to see that it is not so much a question of finding the right place, the right time, the ideal marriage.… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I have been defeated, and in the defeat I have won myself. It is a pleasure to die at the hands of Life.” — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
Harry Potter represents a much larger wave of cultural revolution that we're all immersed in, and I believe it's a spiritual revolution as well… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
I knew there would be some controversy over the 'Potter' series between religious people and secular-minded people - that was inevitable - what astonished… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
Love cannot long survive without truth. Nor is truth really truth unless it is integrated with love. — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
There are indeed 'values' in the Harry Potter series, but they're confused with anti-values. Potterworld is a scrambled moral universe. There are Christian symbols… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
Genuine freedom is possible only where there is genuine love. And genuine love is not possible without truth. — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
If creators of Christian culture hope to produce work that will bear good fruit, we must draw our life from the true source -… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
Imagination is a screen onto which the evil spirits can 'project' images, temptations presented as stimulating entertainments, offering us pleasurable rewards if we give… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
My Catholic faith is my life. Any artist, if he is to be faithful to how he perceives the world and to the nature… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
Healthy fiction, no matter how wildly it may depart from the material order, teaches us to love ourselves in a wholesome manner by loving… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
We must become a people who are in submission, that is, submitted completely to the mission of the Church, 'in statu missionis.' Thus, living… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
Providence The will of God acting together with human will. But he respects our will absolutely. He does not force. Love never forces. It… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
