Dean Koontz is a Catholic convert
January 1, 2009
I’ve never read any of Dean Koontz’s books, but my wife is a huge fan of his, so I am familiar with some of his work. My wife has been telling me for years that I would enjoy his books, but for whatever reason I’ve never gotten around to reading any.
Anyways, I was pleasantly surprised to stumble upon this interview Beliefnet did with Dean Koontz. The interview explores such topics as his conversion to Catholicism, the loss of loved ones, and his use of spiritual themes in his books.
The whole interview makes for interesting reading, but here is just one of the questions from the interview, which I found particularly interesting.
What’s your least favorite thing about being a Catholic?
How Vatican II threw away so much tradition. It’s only beginning to come back. The Latin Mass and all of that was a great loss, something that is embraced and promoted for hundreds upon hundreds of years and then disappears overnight in an attempt to satisfy an urge toward trendiness. It was a great loss to the church, and I think it still is.
You can read the full interview over at Beliefnet: Dean Koontz: Angels, Demons, and Our Mysterious World.
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January 1, 2009 at 8:05 pm
I think lamenting the loss of the Latin mass as an attempt to satisfy the urge toward trendiness is like saying that embracing the printing press is sad because now people now longer have to hear the Word spoken. I find that a strange remark.
January 2, 2009 at 12:58 am
Jim,
I think it strange as well. I can sympathize with those who long for a certain liturgy they feel moves them, but I disagree with the notion that everything new is bad. And I definitely disagree with “holier than the Pope” traditionalist views.
However, I thought Koontz’s comment was interesting in that it was a sentiment I don’t often hear from famous secular Catholics.
May 20, 2009 at 8:05 pm
It was the a traditionalists that brought back the Latin Mass back Pope John Paul II and our current Pope. The Latin Mass was the Mass that thousands of saints attended and has been refer as the Mass of the Saints. It is a beautiful liturgy and is still as holy as it was at the beginning. The new Mass is not a new and better version of the old Mass. It is a different rite.
I am also very happy that a new convert to the Catholic Church can see the Beauty of the old Mass.