<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	xmlns:series="http://unfoldingneurons.com/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Catholic Fiction</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.catholicfiction.net/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.catholicfiction.net</link>
	<description>news, views &#38; reviews</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:16:41 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
			<item>
		<title>Passport by Christopher Blunt</title>
		<link>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2010/03/10/passport-by-christopher-blunt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2010/03/10/passport-by-christopher-blunt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen Gable Hrkach</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Blunt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ellen Gable Hrkach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Passport]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.catholicfiction.net/?p=1260</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Published June 2008 by Pelican Crossing Press, 404 pages
reviewed by Ellen Gable Hrkach
Christopher Blunt describes his debut novel as a “coming-of-age story about a young Catholic man’s discovery of self-sacrificial love.”  In this day and age, where self-centeredness, casual sex and “friends with benefits” are becoming the norm, Passport offers an important and timely [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2010/03/10/passport-by-christopher-blunt/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope</title>
		<link>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2010/02/23/can-you-forgive-her-by-anthony-trollope/</link>
		<comments>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2010/02/23/can-you-forgive-her-by-anthony-trollope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christy Isinger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classic Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anthony trollope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christy Isinger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pallisers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[victorian novel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.catholicfiction.net/?p=1254</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reviewed by Christy Isinger
Every once in a while I get a Victorian literature craving. This craving usually arrives during the winter when the thought of a more cosmopolitan and civilized life seems much more appealing than wearing half a dozen layers of clothing before venturing out of doors and trudging through the snow. I’ve always [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2010/02/23/can-you-forgive-her-by-anthony-trollope/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Midnight Dancers: A Fairy Tale Retold by Regina Doman</title>
		<link>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2010/02/18/the-midnight-dancers-a-fairy-tale-retold-by-regina-doman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2010/02/18/the-midnight-dancers-a-fairy-tale-retold-by-regina-doman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen Gable Hrkach</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Young Adult]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brothers Grimm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fairy tales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regina Doman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the midnight dancers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[twelve dancing princesses]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.catholicfiction.net/?p=1237</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[2008, Chesterton Press, 214 pages
reviewed by Ellen Gable Hrkach
The Midnight Dancers is the fourth in Regina Doman’s series of “Fairy Tale Novels,” and this, by far, is my favorite of her four books.   The story takes place in Bayside, Maryland and is a new take on Grimms’ “The Twelve Dancing Princesses,” and involves [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2010/02/18/the-midnight-dancers-a-fairy-tale-retold-by-regina-doman/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather</title>
		<link>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2010/02/13/death-comes-for-the-archbishop-by-willa-cather/</link>
		<comments>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2010/02/13/death-comes-for-the-archbishop-by-willa-cather/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen Gable Hrkach</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classic Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religious Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Death comes for the archbishop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ellen Gable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southwest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Willa Cather]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.catholicfiction.net/?p=1229</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[first published 1927
reviewed by Ellen Gable Hrkach

Willa Cather’s outstanding novel Death Comes for the Archbishop tells the story of Bishop Jean Latour and his friend, Father Joseph Vaillant, as they travel to New Mexico in the mid 19th century to bring the Catholic Faith to the natives. The novel is based on the true stories [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2010/02/13/death-comes-for-the-archbishop-by-willa-cather/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Catholic novel wins Readers Favorite award</title>
		<link>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2010/02/10/catholic-novel-wins-readers-favorite-award/</link>
		<comments>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2010/02/10/catholic-novel-wins-readers-favorite-award/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News/Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing, Lit Crit & Biography]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.catholicfiction.net/?p=1180</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Gerard Webster&#8217;s novel IN-SIGHT, which was reviewed here recently on Catholic Fiction, has won an award in the &#8220;Fiction &#8211;  Suspense&#8221; category for the 2009 Readers Favorite Awards.  Visit the Readers Favorite site and click on the 2009 Readers Favorite Winners &#8220;Fiction-Suspense&#8221; link..  This is a secular  web-site of book reviews, and it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2010/02/10/catholic-novel-wins-readers-favorite-award/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Bleak House by Charles Dickens</title>
		<link>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2010/01/28/bleak-house-by-charles-dickens-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2010/01/28/bleak-house-by-charles-dickens-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classic Fiction]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.catholicfiction.net/?p=1130</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[reviewed by G.K. Chesterton
[editor's note: this piece was first published by E.P. Dutton &#38; Sons in 1911 in the collection, Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens, by G. K. Chesterton]
Bleak House is not certainly Dickens&#8217;s best book; but perhaps it is his best novel. Such a distinction is not a mere verbal [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2010/01/28/bleak-house-by-charles-dickens-2/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Calling an Angel by Richard de Montebello</title>
		<link>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2010/01/28/calling-an-angel-by-richard-de-montebello/</link>
		<comments>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2010/01/28/calling-an-angel-by-richard-de-montebello/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fantasy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Young Adult]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[calling an angel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gabriel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[richard de montebello]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[young adult fiction]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.catholicfiction.net/?p=1164</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[reviewed by Jody Rakis
Calling An Angel is written for young adults.  At the first of the book this seems very evident to the reader.  The language and sentence structure is set so that the young reader can immediately grasp, understand and get interested in the story line. So, I put my adolescent mind [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2010/01/28/calling-an-angel-by-richard-de-montebello/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Bleeder by John Desjarlais</title>
		<link>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2010/01/21/bleeder-by-john-desjarlais/</link>
		<comments>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2010/01/21/bleeder-by-john-desjarlais/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christy Isinger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mystery/Detective]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Fiction]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.catholicfiction.net/?p=1159</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[reviewed by Christy Isinger
I am always in the mood for a mystery. I always seem to get pulled into mystery novels no matter their setting or character, but I was greatly intrigued when I heard that John Dejarlais’ newest novel would be a mystery based on the death of a priest. Bleeder is the first [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2010/01/21/bleeder-by-john-desjarlais/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Death Comes for the Archbishop as a Catholic Novel</title>
		<link>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2010/01/09/death-comes-for-the-archbishop-as-a-catholic-novel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2010/01/09/death-comes-for-the-archbishop-as-a-catholic-novel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classic Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literary Fiction]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.catholicfiction.net/?p=1137</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Cliff&#8217;s Notes website has a nice little article on the subject of (Protestant) Willa Cather&#8217;s Death Comes for the Archbishop as a very very Catholic novel. Here&#8217;s the introductory paragraph:
By depicting the mysteries of the Catholic faith as well as the everyday  evidence of divine order and the order imposed by the hierarchical [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2010/01/09/death-comes-for-the-archbishop-as-a-catholic-novel/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Search for Saint Valeria by William L. Biersach</title>
		<link>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2010/01/06/the-search-for-saint-valeria-by-william-l.-biersach/</link>
		<comments>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2010/01/06/the-search-for-saint-valeria-by-william-l.-biersach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tannia Ortiz-Lopes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mystery/Detective]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Fiction]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.catholicfiction.net/?p=1121</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[reviewed by Tannia Ortiz-Lopès

In his  book, The Search for Saint Valeria, author William L. Biersach  brings to the reader a creative mystery hunt for  lost-and-found ancient relics where Fr. Baptist and his sidekick  gardener, Mr. Feeney, find themselves searching for the dead among the  living. 
The book cover shows a [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2010/01/06/the-search-for-saint-valeria-by-william-l.-biersach/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
