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Catholic Book Club
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Catholic veteran Phil Klay writes about forever wars — and he sounds a lot like Pope Francis
Phil Klay is part of a new generation of authors who are putting to rest the overwrought claims about the death of modern Catholic fiction.
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Sally Rooney isn’t just the ‘Snapchat Generation’s’ Catholic novelist (but she is that).
Is Sally Rooney the millennial generation’s great Catholic writer?
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Love him or hate him, Jonathan Franzen sparks conversation
Jonathan Franzen remains among the select few novelists who can vie for a Pulitzer Prize and the top spot on best-seller lists every time out of the gate. His new novel might win him both.
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The gift and challenge of love in Kirstin Valdez Quade’s ‘The Five Wounds’
‘The Five Wounds’ causes the reader pain. Call it compassion. Call it empathy. Call it the Christian experience of being heart-stretched.
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What has the Catholic Book Club been reading recently? Novels.
The two most recent selections for the Catholic Book Club were novels that originally began as short stories.
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The crux of religious belief: Walter Miller Jr.’s ‘A Canticle for Leibowitz’
Parsing the pros and cons of ‘A Canticle for Leibowitz,’ the latest selection of the Catholic Book Club.
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What has the Catholic Book Club been reading?
The two most recent selections by the Catholic Book Club couldn’t have been more different: A look at Thomas Jefferson’s quixotic attempt to rewrite the Bible, and Niall Williams’s richly evocative novel about a small village in the west of Ireland.
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The gleeful language of Niall Williams’s ‘This Is Happiness’
The latest selection of the Catholic Book Club, this novel by Niall Williams is full of lively, dancing imagery sure to bring glee to the reader.
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When Thomas Jefferson rewrote the Bible
Peter Manseau, the curator of American religious history at the Smithsonian, offers his definitive description of Thomas Jefferson’s eclectic efforts to remake the Bible in the Catholic Book Club’s latest selection.