fiction

If you like to read novels about priests, Doris Donnelly of John Carroll University has six suggestions. My book group has read four of the six in recent years.  I’d say (and I think my fellow readers in the group  would agree) that three of them get an A+: The Power and the Glory, The [...]

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“Faith and Fiction” is a wonderful lecture by Ron Hansen delivered some years ago and recently posted on the web by the University of Santa Clara, where Hansen teaches.  If you have a liking for religious fiction, I urge you to read his novels Mariette in Ecstasy and Atticus.  The lecture concludes with this: Writing [...]

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Vincent Strand, SJ, on  Therese of Lisieux’s mission to modernity. The Catholic fiction of Alice McDermott in America. Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ, explains why the Vatican has an observatory. The religious fiction of Uwem Apkan, SJ.

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