Call Me Magdalena
Alicia Steimberg
1992
What I like about Catholic Heaven (I’d say Christian Heaven, but I’m afraid of making a mistake; I know very little about Evangelicals and Seventh Day Adventists) is that it has well-defined limits. If there’s anything that scares me, it’s trying to imagine eternity, the infinite. Catholic Heaven has well-defined limits; it occupies one space among…
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