Can we consider Toni Morrison a Catholic novelist? To some, Morrison’s Catholicism might not seem obvious, but for others she is clearly engaging with questions familiar to a Christian audience.

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Toni Morrison’s characters always find faith ... Yet that woman was a very devout Catholic who went to Mass every Sunday and was the president of the Rosary Guild. Morrison saw in this form ...

Can we also consider Toni Morrison a Catholic novelist? The hosts of America’s Jesuitical podcast explored this question with Nadra Little in this 2021 episode. Nadra Little: “Healing ...

And Toni was shortened from Anthony, which was the name when you were... MORRISON: Baptized. GROSS: ...Baptized. And so am I right in saying that you became a Catholic when you were 12?

The award-winning Black feminist author Toni Morrison converted to Roman Catholicism in her teens, taking Anthony as her baptismal name and using Toni as a pen name. She wrote fiction featuring ...

At 12 years old, she made the decision to convert to Catholicism ... someone called her Toni—and the nickname stuck. She became Toni Morrison when she married Harold Morrison in 1958.

Read More of Toni Morrison’s writing in The New Yorker ... During her childhood conversion to Catholicism, she chose the confirmation name that eventually led to “Toni”: Saint Anthony ...

including a cousin Morrison was close to, was Catholic. Anthony then became her middle name and was shortened by family members to Toni. She started using this as her first name when she was a ...

Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon 3 ... I never asked [James] Joyce not to mention Catholicism or the world of Dublin. Never. And I don't know why I should be asked to explain your life to you.

She changed her name in college: Toni from St. Anthony, her baptismal name when she converted to Catholicism as a child, and Morrison from an early marriage that ended in divorce. She didn’t ...

“Toni Morrison’s prose brings us that kind of ... At 12, Chloe joined the Roman Catholic Church. She took the baptismal name Anthony, becoming known as Chloe Anthony Wofford.