Author, former Marine, ponders how faith tempers horror, violence September 23, 2022By Mike Mastromatteo Catholic News Service Filed Under: Books, News, World News In addition to garnering a National Book Award, “Redeployment” marked Phil Klay as a writing force to be reckoned with.
Faith’s storehouse of story and symbol enhances poet’s diverse output June 10, 2021By Mike Mastromatteo Catholic News Service Filed Under: Books, Feature, News, World News O’Donnell has devoted the bulk of her work to studying Flannery O’Connor as a Catholic artist.
Graduate program aims to reverse decline seen in Catholic art, literature April 6, 2021By Mike Mastromatteo Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, World News “Our aim is to serve and inspire the ongoing revival of Catholic letters in our time,” said co-founder James Matthew Wilson, outgoing professor of humanities at Villanova University near Philadelphia.
Best-selling author formed enduring bond with worldwide readership February 3, 2020By Mike Mastromatteo Filed Under: Books, News, Obituaries, World News Mary Higgins Clark, known as the “queen of suspense” to her millions of readers throughout the world, died of natural causes in Naples, Florida, Jan. 31. She was 92.
Writer’s Southern roots inspire ‘radical faith’ element to her fiction January 10, 2020By Mike Mastromatteo Filed Under: News, World News A native of Beaufort, South Carolina, Sayers’ first five novels touch on the sense of separateness and isolation of Catholic communities in the heavily Protestant U.S. South.
