Catholic Literature Quotes

“Catholic literature is rarely pious.”
― Dana Gioia, The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays

“The Catholic writer has the inestimable advantage of a profound and truthful worldview that has been articulated, explored, and amplified by two thousand years of art and philosophy, a tradition whose symbols, stories, personalities, and concepts and correspondences add enormous resonance to any artist’s work.”
― Dana Gioia, The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays

“To be a Catholic writer is to stand at the center of the Western tradition in artistic terms.”
― Dana Gioia

“To be a Catholic writer is to stand at the center of the Western tradition in artistic terms. *”
― Dana Gioia, The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays

“The great potential of Christian literature [is] to depict the material world, the physical world of the senses, while also revealing behind it another invisible and eternal dimension.”
― Dana Gioia, The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays

“The renewal of the Catholic arts will not come from the Church itself.”
― Dana Gioia, The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays