Stories That Tell the U.S. Catholic Story

Stories That Tell the US Catholic Story

COMMENTARY: Looking at US Catholic history through a fictional lens.

Stories That Tell the U.S. Catholic Story

Fiction can often convey the human texture of a time and place better than scholarly works of history. Herewith, and in honor of the national semiquincentennial, some novels that help tell the Catholic story in these United States through a fictional lens.   The Pre-History: Through the life of one of my native state’s notable daughters, Margaret Brent, Lucia St. Clair Robson’s Mary’s Land recounts the initial settlement and later struggles of t…