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 ...

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 ...

This Thursday, Oct. 19, is the “Memorial of Saints John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, Priests, and Companions, Martyrs” in the lectionary for Mass used in the United States. Those of us south of the ...

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 ...

Though apologetics plays an important role in evangelization, fiction is far better suited to expressing the essential paradoxes of faith that drove my cousin’s questions. As Flannery O’Connor once ...

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 ...

Christopher Beha and William Giraldi. The novel of religious faith—or, rather, its disappearance—has been much in the literary news lately. Since the death of Walker Percy a quarter century ago, no ...

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 ...

Nigerian literature has scored another major high with Pita Okute winning the internationally coveted Tuscany Prize for Catholic Fiction in 2012. Pita Okute’s masterful novel Wild Spirits beat out ...

“Wild Spirits is sumptuously well-written, and it deservedly won the 2012 Tuscany Prize for Catholic Fiction.” Nigerian literature has scored another major high with Pita Okute winning the ...