Catholic Info
Traditional Catholic Faith => Art and Literature for Catholics => Topic started by: statistica on April 27, 2025, 07:29:04 AM
-
Catholic should be encouraged to write good novels or stories.
In the market, what you find are mostly pagan or bad novels or stories, we need more Catholic stories.
The same for manga and children books. Catholic children should have more opportunites to access Catholic stories.
Catholics should learn to write more.
Would you support this?
We should have a thread where everyone can share stories. (The Catholic Bunker and the Funny Stuff are no place for this)
-
The Marsh Sisters are young Trads (Resistance supporters) that have written two books. We enjoyed both books. TIME TRAVEL NOVELS - Home (https://www.marshauthors.com/)
-
There is lots of literature for young people written before Vatican 2. The Father Finn novels for teenagers and the Father Brown stories by Chesterton come to mind.
-
The Marsh Sisters are young Trads (Resistance supporters) that have written two books. We enjoyed both books. TIME TRAVEL NOVELS - Home (https://www.marshauthors.com/)
Thanks for the info. It's good there are Catholic writers.
But not many.
Do you think Catholics should be encouraged to write good novels or stories?
Would you support this?
-
I highly recommend Wise Blood by the Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor.
It's about a cynical jaded man who has rejected Christianity but can't escape
Christ no matter what he does, even going so far as establishing his own
church, the church of Christ without Christ.
It is considered a southern gothic novel but very funny and poignant.
I would also recommend the latter novels by JK Huysman like En Route and The Cathedral.
He began as a very decadent novelist in the circle of Emile Zola but returned to Catholicism
-
Thank you for all your info, Mr G, Yeti and Vendenfel. They are good.
I'd definitely find out more about your recommendations.
But no one has answered my question yet---
"Do you think Catholics should be encouraged to write good novels or stories?"
Did you mean to say "no, Catholics should not be encouraged to write good novels or stories" ?
And just let pagans and atheists dominate the writing circle?
-
Chances are that the best of any art has been sufficiently mastered in the past, and while it is good to continue to practice good arts, there should already be plenty of good material to consume out there to keep someone busy for a lifetime.
-
Thank you for all your info, Mr G, Yeti and Vendenfel. They are good.
I'd definitely find out more about your recommendations.
But no one has answered my question yet---
"Do you think Catholics should be encouraged to write good novels or stories?"
Did you mean to say "no, Catholics should not be encouraged to write good novels or stories" ?
And just let pagans and atheists dominate the writing circle?
I assume everyone took this as a rhetorical question. Of course we should be loathe to see atheists and the enemies of God dominate the arts.
Catholics should be encouraged to write, yes. But if you want to get to the practicalities of it, writing is a famously non-lucrative career and most trads are busy raising families. I wouldn't expect many great Catholic novelists any time soon.
-
Catholics should be encouraged to write, yes.
Good.
Good, lovely answer.
Would you do as much as you can to achieve that?
Such as:
- 1) donate $1000 to encourage and train new writers;
- 2) spend time to train new writers - 28 hrs/week;
- 3) spend time to read any new story posted here + give encouragement & feedback.
Please choose at least 1 of the above.
-
I'm afraid that as much as I can won't be very much. Are you starting an organization or a periodical or something?