Kenneth Woodward interviews the Rev. Joseph Komonchak, the renowned scholar of the Second Vatican Council, on the council’s impact yesterday and today.
Catholic Identity
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
‘How to Read (and Write) Like a Catholic’: A guide to crafting authentic, faithful fiction
Does Christian literary expression hover as “something between a dead language and a hangover”? Have Catholic artists “ceded the arts to secular society”? In response to what might be considered a literary call to action comes a new book by Joshua Hren.
Posted inArts & Culture, Vantage Point
Sigrid Undset on lies, truths and the Catholic writer
Sigrid Undset, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928, contributed numerous articles to America, including this 1942 essay on Catholic writers.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
The crazy stories about St. Patrick that are actually true
As we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, it is good to look back on some of the saint’s legendary accomplishments—some more legendary than others.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: What can the writers of the Christian left tell us about the future?
If contemplation and criticism can lead to imitation, then writing about the literary Christian left of the last century might help establish a literary Christian left for this century.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
‘The Sister Boniface Mysteries’: the rare show that gets the Catholic Church (and nuns) right
TV shows rarely get it right when depicting priests or men and women religious—but “The Sister Boniface Mysteries” offers a welcome look at a believable and positively portrayed woman in religious life.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Most young Catholics say they are spiritual or religious. That doesn’t mean you’ll find them at Mass.
The vast majority of young, self-identified Catholics describe themselves as at least slightly spiritual and religious—but they practice their faith in ways that might not be familiar to older believers.
Posted inFaith, News
$3.65 million grant will support Catholic thought at top secular universities
A national network of institutes of Catholic thought will soon launch as part of a new $3.65 million grant, issued by the John Templeton Foundation Feb. 1.
Posted inArts & Culture, Vantage Point
The American Catholic Writer is dull.
Myles Connolly on American Catholic writers: “I can’t read them, and few others can, for the simple reason that I and the others do not care to be bored.”
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Catholic leaders need to start listening to those who have left religion behind
Have the “nones” consciously rejected religion, or have religious institutions failed to involve them and respond to their needs? The only way to find out is by asking.