Michelle Buckman is the author of six novels, including Rachel’s Contrition, her latest. On Oct. 7, the novel, from small Catholic publisher Sophia Institute Press, was the #1 seller in Amazon’s Women ...

Husband and wife Andrew Schmiedicke and Regina Doman are spearheading the effort to bring dynamic Catholic fiction to Sophia Institute Press. Have you been looking for good Catholic fiction? So is ...

Paul Contino professor of great books at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., discusses Catholic fiction and poetry with author Tobias Wolff Sept. 20, 2019, at the Catholic Imagination Conference ...

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, ...

Nick Ripatrazone, a New Jersey based Catholic writer of narrative nonfiction, is pictured in an undated photo. (Credit: CNS photo/courtesy Jen Ripatrazone) Listen New Jersey native Nick Ripatrazone ...

When Jon Hassler died last spring at the age of 75, he was the last “Catholic novelist” in America. A long time ago a controversy raged in Catholic journals about whether a “Catholic novel” was ...

In 'A Theology of Fiction,' Cassandra Nelson explores the legacy of Sr. Mariella Gable, who argued that fiction could be both Catholic and quality literature. Gable's advocacy for literature sometimes ...

From left, top row: Toni Morrison (CNS/Reuters/Philippe Wojazer); Ron Hansen (Santa Clara University); Louise Erdrich (Wikimedia Commons/Alessio Jacona); Walker Percy (Wikimedia Commons/Aspen ...

Catholicism gave English literature something it needs to rediscover. By John Mullan When the novelist David Lodge died in January, the obituaries reflected on him as a Roman Catholic novelist – ...