Jon Hassler championed “America’s often struggling middle class” with his rigorous moral vision in his novels.
Midwest (U.S.)
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The Midwest is underwater. Here’s why we should care.
This spring’s floods devastated farming and rural communities in the middle of the U.S. that were already struggling with economic and social decline, writes Nathan Beacom. But ”blue” America may find it difficult to sympathize.
Posted inFaith, News
Catholic Charities weighing response to violent Midwest storms, flooding
Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City expressed gratitude that lives were spared and that all residents of the Missouri capital are accounted for following a devastating tornado.
Posted inFaith, News
Historic flooding in Midwest threatening lives, destroying livelihoods
The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ domestic policy committee late March 19 expressed grief over the lives and livelihoods lost and threatened by the historic flooding in the Midwest and offered prayers for recovery.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Stephen Markley’s ‘Ohio’ is the novel you need to read to understand the Midwest today.
Stephen Markley’s new novel is an intimate, long look at a single night in New Canaan, a fictional “corn and rust” town set somewhere between central and northeast Ohio.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
What you don’t know about Loyola’s Sister Jean
You have likely seen the profiles, the gifs, the memes, the television spots. But there is much that you have not seen.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Living in Trump’s America: A West Virginia town looks for a fresh start
Moundsville, while in decline, has never been nearly as bad as the picture of rusting hell Mr. Trump painted in his inauguration address.
Posted inFaith, Features
Faith is strong in middle America’s small towns—but its future is uncertain.
On any given Sunday, the pews of St. Michael’s in Axtell, Kan., are filled with more than half the town’s population.
Posted inArts & Culture, Culture
The last Catholic novelist: The grace-filled fiction of Jon Hassler
Remembering Jon Hassler, the author of grace-filled Catholic fiction.