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		<title>The Earliest Christian Fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The urge to tell stories seems to be hardwired into human neurology. Still, most of us who know something of the history of Christian fiction don&#8217;t think of much before the medieval romances, but I&#8217;ve always thought that we should certainly take its origins to the parables of Jesus, particularly the story of the Prodigal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hail, English Lit Majors!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 01:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Emma Taylor for pointing us in the direction of this article, listing some major players in our society who majored in English Lit in college&#8211;that oft denigrated college degree that (as my own husband can affirm) rarely translates into a marketable job skill. And yet&#8230;what we would do in a world without an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fr. James Martin on &#8220;the cult of Catholic novelists&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Canadian National Post has an interview with Jesuit Fr. James Martin on his new book, The Jesuit Guid to Practically Everything. Of particular interest to readers and writers of Catholic fiction is the following interchange: Here&#8217;s a taste: HP: Some of the greatest writers of the 20th century — Walker Percy, Flannery O’Connor, Thomas Merton, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catholic Fiction Discussion Forum</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you haven&#8217;t noticed the new &#8220;Discussion Forum&#8221; tab on the top navigation menu of the site&#8230;TA DA! The new discussion forum is up and running here. Please bop over there, register (or login, if you&#8217;ve already registered) and join the conversation about your favoite Catholic novels and short stories, authors and news.]]></description>
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		<title>Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion since 1960</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Princeton University Press (July 21, 2010) ISBN-10: 069114575X ISBN-13: 978-0691145754 reviewed by Roy Peachey It is often assumed, in England at least, that the age of great Christian literature is over. What we have instead, the argument goes, are books which either ignore religion completely, mock it mercilessly, or treat it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peculiar Crossroads: Flannery O&#8217;Connor, Walker Percy, and Catholic Vision in Postwar Southern Fiction by Farrell O&#8217;Gorman</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 01:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy Peachey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Louisiana State University Press (October 10, 2007) ISBN-10: 0807133353 ISBN-13: 978-0807133354 reviewed by Roy Peachey I recently went into the public library in Cambridge – a place not entirely without culture – in search of one of Flannery O’Connor’s books. Not being able to find it, I asked one of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newman&#8217;s role in Tolkien&#8217;s The Lord of the Rings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today (September 21, 2010) is not only the eve of the fall equinox (and Bilbo and Frodo&#8217;s birthday), but the 73rd anniversary of the publication of J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s The Hobbit. It seems fitting then, in this time during which we&#8217;ve been pondering the life and influence of the newly-beatified John Henry Cardinal Newman, to consider [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joseph Pearce on Newman as the &#8220;father of the Catholic Revival&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Miami Herald online has published an article by Ave Maria University professor Joseph Pearce on the importance of Newman to the revival of Catholicism in the English-speaking world. Pearce, who served as an excellent guest commentator alon gside Raymond Arroyo udring EWTN&#8217;s live coverage of Pope Benedict&#8217;s visit to the UK, culminating in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dj Taylor on the English Catholic Novel</title>
		<link>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2010/09/18/dj-taylor-on-the-english-catholic-novel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 20:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the nation&#8217;s 5.5 million Catholics braced themselves (with varying degrees of enthusiasm) for the visit of Pope Benedict XVI [to the UK], last week&#8217;s Tablet offered a hot 100 of the lay-people who &#8220;put Catholicism at the heart of public life&#8221;. Politicians and philanthropists abounded, but there was also a gratifyingly large contingent of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cardinal Newman: first Catholic novelist to be beatified</title>
		<link>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2010/09/10/cardinal-newman-first-catholic-novelist-to-be-beatified/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I&#8217;d like to draw the attention of readers of CatholicFiction.net to a remarkable event: On September 19, during Pope Benedict&#8217;s historic visit to the UK, the Pope will beatify John Henry Cardinal Newman. In honor of this event, I have put up several special pages on the site: the first is a brief (very [...]]]></description>
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