Thomas Merton, letter to Evelyn Waugh, 1948 In “The Life You Save May Be Your Own,” Paul Elie weaves a compelling account of the lives of four prominent American Catholic writers: Dorothy Day ...

What makes someone a “Catholic writer” Why so many of us get stuck on the same Catholic writers The works of three lesser-known Catholic authors: Myles Connolly, Andre Dubus and Mary Karr In ...

Yet Catholic authors sometimes said or did things that pierced that bubble of ego — and often in jarring ways. At the height of their literary success, authors like Evelyn Waugh, Muriel Spark ...

James Keane's new book, Reading Culture Through Catholic Eyes: 50 Writers, Thinkers, and Firebrands Who Challenge and Change Us, focuses on bestselling firebrand Catholic writers like Morrison.

The Times has also signed up the cranky Matthew Walther as a contributing op-ed writer. The editor of the Catholic magazine The Lamp, Walther has pushed the idea that “the church’s social ...

(Fair warning: These are generalizations, they don’t apply tout court to every Catholic writer or figure who has any kind of liberal sympathy, and they are somewhat more relevant to Catholic ...

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) this week announced that celebrated Catholic writer and public intellectual William F. Buckley Jr., who shaped U.S. political discourse for decades, will receive his ...

A new film depicting the life of American writer Flannery O’Connor, whose work reflected her Catholic faith and frequently examined questions of faith, morality, and suffering, will be released ...

The National Catholic Writers’ Organization has extended the acceptance of free creations for the “Mawatha” E-Publication (Easter & New Year E-Publication) in all three languages, Sinhala, Tamil and ...