Recently, Randy Boyagoda, a professor of English and a writer of fiction and essays, offered a provocative call to reflective Christians to put down their Flannery O’Connor and Dostoyevsky and pick up some hard cover fiction in order to revive the Christian literary imagination and Catholic li

In order to introduce the Catholic Book Club Selection for September, I quote something astonishing from Herbert McCabe’s short collection, Faith Within Reason. It is contained within a brief chapter entitled “Forgiveness.” Reflecting upon Luke’s story of the prodigal son (Lk

As the ballots were being read during the papal conclave last March, it soon became clear to the cardinal electors that Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina would be named pope. When the two-thirds majority was reached, Cardinal Claudio Hummes—a member of the Order of Friars Minor—comforted Berg

In the October 20, 1928 issue of America, the editors of the magazine inaugurated the Catholic Book Club with the following notice:[T]he Catholic Book announces that it has selected “The Way It Was with Them” by Peadar O’Donnell, as the outstanding Catholic novel of the month.

The Catholic Book Club seeks to right a wrong with this month’s selection.   Since its inception in 1928, CBC has never chosen a work by Flannery O’Connor.  This month, we will read and discuss O'Connor’s novel, The Violent Bear It Away.On April 15, 2013, I

Today the Catholic Book Club begins its discussion of Tenth of December by George Saunders Thanks to those who have already posted questions on the Catholic Book Club page Thanks too to George Saunders who graciously answered our questions about his book and about the art of fiction Here agai

"My job is to make what happens within the story convincing and accurate and compelling and believable – and if I am a decent observer of human nature and the world, all theological ideas can find a home here."

In the midst of Ernest Hemingway rsquo s novel The Sun Also Rises a successful novelist Bill Gorton demands that his friend Jake Barnes mdash the novel rsquo s narrator mdash give him ldquo irony and pity rdquo one morning in a friendly repartee Jake Barnes has been trying to write fiction

In the midst of Ernest Hemingway rsquo s novel The Sun Also Rises a successful novelist Bill Gorton demands that his friend Jake Barnes mdash the novel rsquo s narrator mdash give him ldquo irony and pity rdquo one morning in a friendly repartee Jake Barnes has been trying to write fiction

In the epilogue of his latest book, "The Pope's Last Crusade: How an American Jesuit Helped Pope Pius XI's Campaign to Stop Hitler," Peter Eisner offers an interesting insight on the men who held the seat of Peter during the 20th century.