id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8328 American Catholic literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 1070 139 60 American Catholic literature Wikipedia In 1865, Fr. Hecker started a periodical which he named the Catholic World and in 1867 he founded the Catholic Publication Society to help publish and distribute them on a national level.[1] Brownson wrote a number of articles for the Catholic World. The mid-twentieth century saw a number of Catholic writers prominent in American literature, such as Paul Horgan, Edwin O'Connor, Henry Morton Robinson, Caroline Gordon, and poet Phyllis McGinley. Powers was an American novelist and short-story writer whose work has long been admired for its gentle satire and its ability to recreate with a few words the insular but gradually changing world of post-World War II American Catholicism. "Catholicism in the United States." The Vital Tradition: the Catholic Novel in a Period of Convergence. Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_Catholic_literature&oldid=985476299" ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8328.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8328.txt