Sweet Tea and Sacraments: Flannery O'Connor, the American South, and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition - Front Porch Republic

Sweet Tea and Sacraments: Flannery O'Connor, the American South, and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition - Front Porch Republic

The American South is a land where faith lingers in the air like humidity. From roadside billboards warning of the Rapture to white-steepled churches standing sentinel over country roads, religion is woven into the landscape. Yet for all its Christian identity, the South has never been entirely hospitable to Catholicism. Flannery O’Connor, Catholic and Southern, understood this tension better than anyone. O’Connor’s fiction does not offer sentim…