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Catholic Fiction at Its Height: The Case for Contemplative Realism

Catholic fiction is an elusive thing. It evades all easy attempts at definition. It’s not fiction about Catholicism. It’s not fiction that promotes Catholicism. And, to make matters worse, Flannery O’Connor, perhaps the foremost American Catholic fiction writer, said that “the Catholic novelist doesn’t have to be a saint; he Read more…

By Daniel Staudt, 3 daysMarch 3, 2026 ago
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Dawn in a Bleared World: Hopkins and Monet

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89), an Oxford convert mentored by St. John Henry Newman, stands among the greatest Catholic poets in the English language. After teaching at Newman’s oratory in Birmingham, Hopkins entered the Jesuits and, after numerous teaching positions in Britain, was sent as a professor of Greek and Latin Read more…

By Jared Staudt, 6 yearsJanuary 28, 2020 ago
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