It’s difficult to know where to start or finish in any discussion of the connection between American literature and the Catholic Faith. The whole topic is fraught with complexity, as is the ...

The Library Long Room, Trinity College Dublin (WikiCommons). The last few years have seen a lively debate over whether Catholic literature is dead or alive. In this magazine (“Writers Blocked,” ...

When Catholic writers, artists, scholars, critics and philosophers refer to the Catholic imagination, what do they mean? Dana Gioia is a poet and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts ...

At the Trying to Say God conference this past June, more than 200 Catholic writers traveled to the University of Notre Dame to grapple with the question that has generated thousands of words of ...

Nick Ripatrazone, a New Jersey based Catholic writer of narrative nonfiction, is pictured in an undated photo. (Credit: CNS photo/courtesy Jen Ripatrazone) Listen New Jersey native Nick Ripatrazone ...

The Catholic Church will soon have a new Doctor of the Church: the English convert, theologian, author, and poet St. John Henry Newman. The Holy See announced the decision Thursday, although an exact ...

In late 2012, a New York Times op-ed column, “Has Faith Lost its Fiction?,” left more than a few people pondering the current state of Catholic arts and letters. The column, prepared by writer Paul ...

Joshua Hren, a fiction writer and publisher of Wiseblood Books, is seen in this undated photo. He is the co-founder of a new online master’s degree program in writing Catholic fiction and poetry at ...

Here’s a question that astute observers of the religious landscape find themselves asking these days, and which deserves a serious response: Why doesn’t Christianity have its own Holocaust literature?