Good Catholic Fiction?

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Anything by Flannery O’Connor. She was a Catholic who lived in the American South. Most of her short stories focus on the working of grace in circumstances that most people would consider graceless.

Gerald Manley Hopkins - A late-Victorian Jesuit poet. “God’s Grandeur” is perhaps one of his best-known poems.

Gramam Greene.
The Power and the Glory

John Cheever.

J.F. Powers. I haven’t really read much of him.

J.R.R. Tolien, of course.

Evelyn Waugh. Brideshead Revisited: an excellent work on sin and conversion.

Oh yes: Robert Southwell. Another Jesuit priest who wrote excellent poems such as “Burning Babe.”
 
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