By Elizabeth Scalia | OSV News
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“To love, it is the most creative and godlike act of all.”
In Anthony Mancini’s “Ashes,” the line is uttered by Concetta, a Sicilian woman living in post-war Taormina. It is 1949, and she has spoken those words to a German Jesuit priest, Father Anton Weiss, who has recently retired from ministry and moved into a rectory in this picturesque town with plans to “write and meditate.”
Though uncertain of what he will write, Father Weiss — who spent decades producing scripts for Vatican Radio in Rome — has faith that something will come out of his journaling.
