Literary critic shines light on faith’s influence on Catholic writers
New Jersey native Nick Ripatrazone once considered the priesthood. But today, he is a teacher, literary critic and the father of twin daughters.
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by bcadmin | Aug 21, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, New Jersey, News, Writers | 0 |
New Jersey native Nick Ripatrazone once considered the priesthood. But today, he is a teacher, literary critic and the father of twin daughters.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 3, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Writers | 0 |
Prolific writer James Lee Burke scoffs mildly at the suggestion there is a homespun theology to be found in the pages of his novels, short stories and assorted musings.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 24, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Writers | 0 |
Maritime Canadian writer Anne Emery readily admits that it was the beauty of traditional sacred music that led her from an indifferent practice of the faith to a new appreciation of the eucharistic celebration and service of priests.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 5, 2022 | Books, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Faith, News, Statues, Virgin Mary, Writers | 0 |
Images of backyard shrines to the Blessed Virgin adorn the pages of many Catholic novelists. They are a place-setting device authors use to plant familiar images in the mind of the reader.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 19, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Lent, News, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Writers | 0 |
How can Catholics and Christians approach Lent this year in a fresh way?
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 16, 2022 | Authors, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Faith, Love, News, University of Notre Dame, Writers | 0 |
Best-selling novelist Nicholas Sparks’ most recent book, “The Wish,” presents a plot common to many of his successful books.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 1, 2022 | Books, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Dominicans, immigrants and refugees, News, Writers | 0 |
While looking for a project so she could cross “write a book” off her bucket list, Anna Marie Kukec Tomczyk thought about her time as an associate with the Dominican Sisters of Springfield, Illinois.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 20, 2021 | Books, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Faith, News, Writers | 0 |
Novelist Julie Courtney Sullivan describes herself as a bit of an outlier in a traditional Irish Catholic family from Massachusetts.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 14, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Writers | 0 |
Tracy Clark’s first published mystery story started one day during a moment when her mind slipped away from a homily at St. Philip Neri Church in Chicago.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 19, 2021 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Poetry, University of St. Thomas, Writers | 0 |
A veteran poet, educator and cultural critic, James Matthew Wilson is a Catholic writer who feels a special need to promote the church’s literary treasure-trove to a much greater, more appreciative audience.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 17, 2021 | Elizabeth Jennings poet, From the Archives, News, poets, Top Story, Writers | 0 |
The poet Elizabeth Jennings was born on this day in 1926. A devout Catholic, she attended St Anne’s College, Oxford, where she lived all her life, before working as a librarian then in publishing before writing full-time. Her “sincere and scrupulous work” has been praised for its “unassuming technical craft”, “emotional restraint,” and “sensitivity towards
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 29, 2020 | Archdiocese of Baltimore, Baltimore, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Catholic Universities, Church in the US, Flannery O'Connor, Maryland, News, Racism, Writers | 0 |
Thirteen years after naming a new residence hall at Loyola University Maryland in honor of the Catholic author Flannery O’Connor, Jesuit Father Brian Linnane, the university’s president, removed the writer’s name from the building.
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