The Rev. Andrew Greeley had an enormous impact on the American Catholic Church—including through his many contributions to this magazine.

A very sunburned literary editor looks back on some Catholic Book Club columns of yore.

John Kennedy Toole's only novel was published after his death—but quickly became a classic of American comic fiction.

This story has no moral, only a great joy for Mrs. Toole, and a great sadness.

In her eight novels and many short stories, Alice McDermott has brought a distinctly Catholic imagination to her fiction—but not in the same way as her forebears.

One of the great Catholic thinkers of 20th-century America is too often overlooked: William F. Lynch, S.J.