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Feb 15, 2016 · Franz Werfel. This morning I received more information from our Third Order Prefect, Brother John Marie Vianney, about the Catholic influences that prepared the way for Werfel’s eleventh hour conversion to the Faith and his Baptism. It came by way of a Wikipedia article on the author and playwright.
Feb 23, 2017 · In the book’s foreword, American author George Weigel said of Franz Werfel’s novel, “On rereading the Song, what struck me most about Werfel’s craft was how deeply this Jewish writer, who had long been interested in Catholicism, but who had never converted, had entered into Catholicism’s sacramental imagination.
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This, along with his governess's influence, gave Werfel an early interest (and expertise) in Catholicism, which soon branched out to other faiths, including Theosophy and Islam, such that his fiction, as well as his nonfiction, provides some insight into comparative religion .
Mar 11, 1990 · Werfel never experimented, and he believed in the triumph of the pure, simple soul. The model for this coeur simple was his childhood nurse, a devout Catholic who fed him between meals in the...
During his five-week stay, Werfel made a vow to Our Lord. Should he and his wife safely reach the United States, his very first task would be to sing the Song of Bernadette. The Jew Franz Werfel fulfilled his vow with a literary master piece, affording rare insights into the Catholic Faith.
As Steiman reports, theological responses to the novel were mixed, but New York’s archbishop (and later cardinal) Francis Spellman became friendly with the author afterward, and a Jesuit reviewer proclaimed that even a Catholic author could not have written a more Catholic book.
Aug 18, 2019 · He later published the Catholic classic The Song of Bernadette, written after a deeply religious experience in Lourdes, a stop on his escape route to the United States through occupied...
