Can we consider Toni Morrison a Catholic novelist? To some, Morrison’s Catholicism might not seem obvious, but for others she is clearly engaging with questions familiar to a Christian audience.

Can we also consider Toni Morrison a Catholic novelist? The hosts of America’s Jesuitical podcast explored this question with Nadra Little in this 2021 episode. Nadra Little: “Healing ...

At 12 years old, she made the decision to convert to Catholicism ... someone called her Toni—and the nickname stuck. She became Toni Morrison when she married Harold Morrison in 1958.

“Toni Morrison’s prose brings us that kind of ... At 12, Chloe joined the Roman Catholic Church. She took the baptismal name Anthony, becoming known as Chloe Anthony Wofford.

When Morrison was Confirmed as a Catholic at age 12, she took the name Anthony, for St. Anthony of Padua, which is where the name Toni came from. Former Plain Dealer book editor Karen Long wrote ...

I never asked Joyce not to mention Catholicism or the world of Dublin. Never. And I don’t know why I should be asked to explain your life to you.” (“Conversations With Toni Morrison,” 1994 ...

And Toni was shortened from Anthony, which was the name when you were... MORRISON: Baptized. GROSS: ...Baptized. And so am I right in saying that you became a Catholic when you were 12?

Toni Morrison (CNS/Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures/Timothy Greenfield-Sanders) Unfortunately, many literary scholars and critics have ignored the prominent role that Catholicism and her subsequent ...

It’s a term I invented, while watching the late, great Toni Morrison masterfully take down her critics: “The Morrisonian Moment.” My favorite of these instances took place during a 1998 ...