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Author, former Marine, ponders how faith tempers horror, violence

Sep 25, 2022
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Literary critic shines light on faith’s influence on Catholic writers

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‘By their deeds’: The problem of evil through the eyes of James Lee Burke

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Paradoxical priest character enlivens Canadian writer’s fiction

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Brooklyn ‘state of mind’ infuses writer’s urban fiction

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Nicholas Sparks not shy about using Catholic influences in romance novels

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Faith learned young has lingering hold on emerging writer

Nov 20, 2021
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Poet sees renewed appreciation of fine arts as way to deepen devotion

Sep 19, 2021
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Graduate program aims to reverse decline seen in Catholic art, literature

Apr 6, 2021
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Canadian cardinal wins defamation lawsuit over sexual abuse allegations

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Spanish Army soldiers block access to the beach for people crossing from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, Friday, August 31, 2026. (Credit: Antonio Sempere/AP.)

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This undated photo provided by Vanderbilt University on Friday, Aug. 28, 2026, shows Amy-Jill Levine, the first Jewish president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America. (Credit: Daniel DuBois/Vanderbilt University via AP.)

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