Robert E. Lauder on the Catholic Fiction of Alice McDermott

Rev. Robert E. Lauder has an article in the recent edition of America magazine on the fiction of Alice McDermott, comparing her novels to those of other famous Catholic novelists such as Graham Greene, and identifying her as what he calls a “Transcendental Thomist.”
Here’s an excerpt:
Over the last seventeen years, as the coordinator of an [...]

Graham Greene: A Life in Letters

Michael Dirda, Washington Post’s perspicacious literary critic, sets his sights on a new collection of correspondence by Graham Greene, the great Catholic novelist. He writes: 
His men and women are murderers, traitors, unhappy adulterous lovers, sinners of every stripe–and he doesn’t glamorize their seediness, their misery, or their desperation. Evelyn Waugh bluntly called them “charmless.” Nearly [...]

The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene

Reviewed by John Murphy
Yours, Now and Forever
The last priest in Mexico is on the run. The Church has gone underground, outlawed by the incumbent Powers-that-Be. Owning a rosary or a prayer book will land you in jail. Faithful Catholics thirst for the Mass, for the Eucharist, for God, but must content themselves with sporadic celebrations. [...]