Catholic Spotlight » Ann Ball http://catholicspotlight.com Your chance to hear from Catholic authors, Catholic musicians, and other creative minds in the Catholic world. Tune in to find out what is hot and new in the Catholic world. Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:20:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 2007-2011 getfed@getfed.com (Catholic Spotlight) getfed@getfed.com (Catholic Spotlight) 1440 http://www.catholicspotlight.com/images/catholic_spotlight_logo_small.jpg Catholic Spotlight http://catholicspotlight.com 144 144 Your chance to hear from Catholic authors, Catholic musicians, and other creative minds in the Catholic world. Tune in to find out what is hot and new in the Catholic world. Catholic Spotlight Catholic Spotlight getfed@getfed.com no no Ann Ball – We Will Miss You http://catholicspotlight.com/91/ann-ball-we-will-miss-you/ http://catholicspotlight.com/91/ann-ball-we-will-miss-you/#comments Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:53:19 +0000 Chris Cash http://catholicspotlight.com/91/ann-ball-we-will-miss-you/ Continue reading →]]> In the world of Catholic authors which is typically dominated by theologians and scholars, Ann Ball stood out as a unique character.  She had the unique distinction of being hardened, gun toting security guard manager by day–and prolific writer about the saints and Catholic tradition at night.  As a school teacher, she had a passion for bringing the real faces of saints to her students to let them see that these saints did not look much different than the rest of us.  That passion continued inter her later life as she wrote many books on modern saints which were strewn with pictures of the real saints as they were.  Her website at www.annball.com is filled with them as well, and it is somehow appropriate that her picture now rests with them as she herself goes to join them.  Her writings, will of course, stay with us.

I was lucky enough to take part in one of Ann Ball’s last interviews this past January, and she was, as always, full of lots of color.  I hope you enjoy listening to her as much as I have enjoyed talking with her and reading her books.

]]> http://catholicspotlight.com/91/ann-ball-we-will-miss-you/feed/ 1 CS#38: Ann Ball Shares About Stations Of The Cross And Saints http://catholicspotlight.com/67/ann-ball-stations-of-the-cross-saints/ http://catholicspotlight.com/67/ann-ball-stations-of-the-cross-saints/#comments Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:00:23 +0000 Chris Cash http://catholicspotlight.com/67/ann-ball-stations-of-the-cross-saints/ Continue reading →]]>  If you have ever heard the phrase “Lovable gun toting grandma” and thought how is that possible, then you have never met Catholic Author Ann Ball.  Ann manages a security company in Houston and writes some of the most well researched books in the Catholic world.  Whether she is writing about modern day saints, Catholic Crafts, the Stations of the Cross, Catholic burial traditions, or any of her other interests, she always presents a clear and interesting picture of her subject material.  Ann’s ‘double life’ (as she calls it) also gives us all inspiration to know that you don’t have to be a theologian to write great Catholic books.  Ann shares about her inspirations for writing and how she got started as an author.  Tune in and listen to this always interesting character. 

Find more Ann Ball material at www.annball.com.

Items Discussed in this podcast:

All Ann Ball books

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