The Liguorian online has published an article by Brian Doyle called “Voices of Vision and Power: The Best U.S. Catholic Writers.” In it, Doyle briefly discusses the “Greats” of American Catholic literature that every Catholic writer should read, study and love.

At the top of the list, unsuprisingly, is the inimitable Bl. Flannery. Here’s a little of what Doyle says about “Her Flanneryness”:

O’Connor wrote of the challenges of the Catholic writer in various sources: “What we roughly call the Catholic [story] is not necessarily about a Christianized or Catholicized world, but simply that it is one in which the truth as Christians know it has been used as a light to see the world by.” “One of the awful things about writing when you are a Christian is that for you the ultimate reality is the Incarnation, the present reality is the Incarnation, and nobody believes in the Incarnation.” “to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.”

For the rest of this delightful article, click here.

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