Editor’s Note: The “2022 Catholic Imagination Conference” will be held this week at the University of Dallas. The following excerpt is adapted from a handout for participating students. The ...

I write because I breathe. It's what I do. I've always known that it was what I would do. As a child, making weekly trips to the local library and creating my own magazines, I knew in my heart that I ...

Midway through Richard Rodriguez’s recent spiritual autobiography, Darling, the author offers Catholic readers a useful catechism: “I stay in the church because the church is more than its ignorance; ...

CNA recently reviewed “Fatherless,” a book that has been dubbed “the Catholic novel of our generation.” The book, however, isn’t simply just story, author Brian Gail says of his work, “I’m hopeful ...

THERE are no living American Catholics who are major writers. By two rules of thumb I suggest that American Catholic writers have been found wanting: individually they have failed to produce (1) a ...

A little over a year ago, the writer and editor Paul Elie dropped a literary bomb. In an article in The New York Times, “Has Fiction Lost its Faith?” Elie claimed that the era of Flannery O’Connor and ...

This eBook is a collection of 30 of the finest spirituality essays published in the National Catholic Reporter during 2012. Since its founding in 1964, NCR has published many well-known authors of ...

J.F. Powers is often referred to -- if anyone still refers to him, that is -- as a “Catholic writer.” This is understandable. His short stories, as well as his highly-praised novels Wheat that ...

HBO’s new Pennsylvania-set crime drama is a masterpiece of Catholic writing in the tradition of Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh, writes Mark Lawson HBO’s new Pennsylvania-set crime drama is a ...