Spirits Above and Behind Me

Over at Sully there's been an ongoing series re: has 9/11 produced great works of art, and Springsteen's The Rising album has been a big part of it, including an article HERE from a  Catholic viewpoint:

Like the luminous but much-overlooked seventh chapter of the “Dogmatic Constitution on the Church” of the Second Vatican Council, “The Rising” gestures toward an experience of community that includes the living and the dead and between whom there flows a hidden “exchange of spiritual gifts.” Even more, as the Jesuit theologian Jon Sobrino intimates, we receive from the dead “a saving power: they summon to conversion, bring light and salvation.” The question is: what kind of conversion, what kind of salvation? While the prayerful remembrance (anamnesis) of the dead may save us, the highly selective way we remember is tearing us apart as a global community....Hope for life’s flourishing on this side of death breaks in, paradoxically, from life on the other side.  This is the dream of life that Springsteen dared to awaken 10 years ago and awakens still, if we would listen. “Come on up for the rising/ Come on up, lay your hands in mine.” Here is the real power of community: when it leads not to outward-flung hatred but to inward-directed silence and the awakening there of an impossible, fierce hope that rededicates itself to all life on this side of death.