I write because I breathe. It's what I do. I've always known that it was what I would do. As a child, making weekly trips to the local library and creating my own magazines, I knew in my heart that I ...

In a powerful essay in First Things, the poet Dana Gioia despairs of the state of Catholic writing in America today. First, he defines what he means by the Catholic sensibility in writing: There is no ...

Midway through Richard Rodriguez’s recent spiritual autobiography, Darling, the author offers Catholic readers a useful catechism: “I stay in the church because the church is more than its ignorance; ...

A little over a year ago, the writer and editor Paul Elie dropped a literary bomb. In an article in The New York Times, “Has Fiction Lost its Faith?” Elie claimed that the era of Flannery O’Connor and ...

Phil Klay is pictured in this undated photo. He is a Catholic author whose works include the New York Times best-selling collection of short stories “Redeployment.” (Credit: Courtesy Hannah Dunphy via ...

CNA recently reviewed “Fatherless,” a book that has been dubbed “the Catholic novel of our generation.” The book, however, isn’t simply just story, author Brian Gail says of his work, “I’m hopeful ...

THERE are no living American Catholics who are major writers. By two rules of thumb I suggest that American Catholic writers have been found wanting: individually they have failed to produce (1) a ...

This eBook is a collection of 30 of the finest spirituality essays published in the National Catholic Reporter during 2012. Since its founding in 1964, NCR has published many well-known authors of ...

Layman who began his writing career in his school days continues to serve the Church through his creative work ...

Last week’s “In Person” introduced readers to Piers Paul Read, best known for his 1974 non-fiction work Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors. Now he’s got a new drama hitting bookstores, only it’s ...