Awash in irony, Kirstin Valdez Quade's debut novel, The Five Wounds reads like a prose poem. Its descriptive details develop the characters slowly, gradually revealing the plot in which a man seeks ...

Let’s face it, being an authentic Catholic is hard work. … If your kid is going to practice his faith as an adult, he must ...

Flannery O’Connor wrote the following in her Mystery and Manners: “The novelist makes his statement by selection, and if he is any good, he selects every word for a reason, every incident for a reason ...

The adage, “write what you know,” adds genuine first-hand knowledge and experience, even when you’re writing fiction.

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal ...

Father Andrew Greeley, Catholic Priest and acclaimed novelist, joins Host Larry Mantle to discuss his new novel The Priestly Sins. In it, he tells the story of a priest who confronts sexual abuse in ...

The class and I chewed on that question for many weeks. What we finally arrived at felt insufficient but ultimately satisfied: Those first books were each an author’s way of laying down a marker, ...

An obvious labor of love by Brian Doyle, one of America's best Catholic writers, Cat's Foot is a novel about finding the sacred in the ordinary, forging a sense of wonder through minute exquisite ...

Infinite Regress: A Novel by Joshua Hren (Angelico Press, 2022), 296 pages. Something is rotten in the state of academia—especially at St. Marquis University. Joshua Hren’s new novel Infinite Regress ...

A major Catholic publishing house is pulling a book on Catholic princess saints days after an illustrator took to social media saying that the company had published the book based on her ideas and ...