List of Catholic writers

The writers listed on this page should be limited to those who identify as Catholic in some way. This does not mean they are necessarily orthodox in their beliefs. It does mean they identify as Catholic in a religious, cultural, or even aesthetic manner. The common denominator is that at least some (and preferably the majority) of their writing is imbued with a Catholic religious, cultural or aesthetic sensibility.

Asian languages

Chinese language

Xu Guangqi – one of the Three Pillars of Chinese Catholicism. He was a Chinese scholar-bureaucrat, agronomist, astronomer, mathematician, and writer during the Ming dynasty. Xu was a colleague and collaborator of the Italian Jesuits Matteo Ricci and Sabatino de Ursis and assisted their translation of several classic Western texts into Chinese, including part of Euclid's Elements.
Su Xuelin – Chinese educator, essayist, novelist and poet; she described Thorny Heart as a description of her 'personal journey on the road to Catholicism'^[1]
John Ching Hsiung Wu – jurist and author; wrote in Chinese, English, French, and German on Christian spirituality, Chinese literature and legal topics
Li Yingshi – Ming Chinese military officer and a renowned mathematician, astrologer and feng shui expert, who was among the first Chinese literati to become Christian. Converted to Catholicism by Matteo Ricci and Diego de Pantoja, the first two Jesuits to establish themselves in Beijing.

Japanese language

Shusaku Endo – Japanese Roman Catholic novelist; recipient of 1955 Akutagawa Prize
Ayako Sono – Japanese Roman Catholic novelist; part of the Third Generation
Jacobo Kyushei Tomonaga – He composed one of the first modern Japanese dictionaries.

Vietnamese language

Bảo Đại – last emperor of Vietnam

European languages

Albanian language

Gjon Buzuku – priest; wrote the first known printed book in Albanian.
Pal Engjëlli – Archbishop; wrote the first known document in Albanian
Gjergj Fishta – poet; in 1937 he completed and published his epic masterpiece Lahuta e Malcís, an epic poem written in the Gheg dialect of Albanian. It contains 17,000 lines and is considered the "Albanian Iliad". He is regarded among the most influential cultural and literary figures of the 20th century in Albania.
Ndre Mjeda – Jesuit poet; poems include "The Nightingale's Lament" and "Imitation of the Holy Virgin"
Giulio Variboba – poet; priest, of the Arbëresh Albanian people of Southern Italy, regarded by many Albanians as the first genuine poet in all of Albanian literature
Pjetër Budi – Bishop; known for his work "Doktrina e Kërshtenë" (The Christian Doctrine), an Albanian translation of the catechism of Robert Bellarmine.

Bosnian language

Matija Divković – Bosnian Franciscan and writer from Bosnia; considered to be the founder of the modern literature in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Croatian language

Ivan Gundulić – poet; work embodies central characteristics of Catholic Counter-Reformation
Marko Marulić – poet; inspired by the Bible, Antique writers, and Christian hagiographies
Andrija Kačić Miošić – poet
Petar Preradović – was a Croatian poet, writer, and military general of Serb origin. He was one of the most important Croatian poets of the 19th century Illyrian movement and the main representative of romanticism in Croatia.
Mihalj Šilobod Bolšić – Roman Catholic priest, mathematician, writer, and musical theorist primarily known for writing the first Croatian arithmetic textbook Arithmatika Horvatzka (published in Zagreb, 1758).

Czech language

Jindřich Šimon Baar – ordained as a Catholic priest in 1892; wrote about church reform
Otokar Březina
Jan Čep
Jakub Deml – between 1902 and 1909 he was a Catholic priest; suspended in 1912; publishing of his books was prohibited after the communist coup
Ivan Diviš – converted to Catholicism in 1964 (during their Communist period); he left after the Prague Spring ended
Jaroslav Durych – originally a physician; essayist and poet; wrote the novel Bloudění (from the Thirty Years' War), which was translated into several languages, including English
Tomáš Halík – priest and writer; priest in the underground church during Communism
Bohuslav Hasištejnský z Lobkovic – elected Bishop of Olomouc, but was refused by the pope
Václav Havel – playwright and President of the Czech Republic
Vladimír Holan – left the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and reentered the Catholic Church
Jan Lipšanský – contemporary Czech writer of Catholic essays (some of them broadcast by Vatican Radio) and some mystery stories with a modern monk solving them
Bohuslav Reynek
Jan Zahradníček – Catholic mystic poet of the early and mid-20th century; because of his writings he was imprisoned as an enemy of the Communists after their coup in 1948

Danish language

Jens Johannes Jørgensen – late-19th and early-20th-century poet and novelist; also a biographer of Catholic saints

Dutch language

Bertus Aafjes (born Lambertus Jacobus Johannes Aafjes) – 20th-century poet; poems such as "Een Voetreis naar Rome" (1946) and "In den Beginne" (1949) show a strong Catholic faith
Guido Gezelle – priest (from the predominantly Catholic Flanders)
Vonne van der Meer – converted in the 1990s; married to Willem Jan Otten
Henri Nouwen
Willem Jan Otten – converted in the 1990s, a few years after his wife Vonne van der Meer
Gerard Reve
Godfried Bomans
Joost van den Vondel – dramatist and poet of the Dutch Golden Age; converted to Catholicism from a Mennonite background around 1641; his masterpieces are his dramas on religious and biblical themes, e.g., Lucifer, Noah and his short poems

English language

As the anti-Catholic laws were lifted in the mid-19th century, there was a revival of Catholicism in the British Empire. There has long been a distinct Catholic strain in English literature.

The most notable figures are Cardinal Newman, a convert, one of the leading prose writers of his time and also a substantial poet, and the priest-poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, also a convert, although most of the latter's works were only published many years after his death. In the early 20th century, G. K. Chesterton, a convert, and Hilaire Belloc, a French-born Catholic who became a British subject, promoted Roman Catholic views in direct apologetics as well as in popular, lighter genres, such as Chesterton's "Father Brown" detective stories. From the 1930s on the "Catholic novel" became a force impossible to ignore, with leading novelists of the day, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene, converts both, dealing with distinctively Catholic themes in their work. Although James Hanley was not a practising Catholic, a number of his novels emphasise Catholic beliefs and values, including The Furys Chronicle.

In America, Flannery O'Connor wrote powerful short stories with a Catholic sensibility and focus, set in the American South where she was decidedly in the religious minority.

A–C

Lord Acton – 19th-century English historian from a Catholic Recusant family; disagreed with ultramontanism and had Old Catholic Church sympathies, but never left the church; known for the aphorism that "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"
John L. Allen Jr. – American journalist who has written on Opus Dei and Pope Benedict XVI
Elizabeth Anscombe – English philosopher
Kenneth Owen Arvidson (1938–2011) – New Zealand poet
Maurice Baring – English man of letters, convert, friend of Belloc and Chesterton
James K Baxter (1926–1972) – New Zealand poet, dramatist, literary critic and social commentator; a convert to Catholicism^[2]
Hilaire Belloc – strongly held, orthodox Catholic views; wrote apologetics, famous comic verse, historical, political and economic works and well-known account of a pilgrimage he took on foot, "The Path to Rome"; French-born but became a British subject and politician
Robert Hugh Benson – English convert and priest who wrote Lord of the World and apologetics
William Peter Blatty – American screenwriter and novelist; known for the novel The Exorcist and Academy Award-winning screenplay adapting same
Martin Stanislaus Brennan – American priest and scientist; wrote books about science and religion
Heywood Broun – American journalist who covered social justice issues, a convert
George Mackay Brown – Scottish poet and author
Orestes Brownson – 19th-century American writer and convert
Vincent Buckley – Australian poet
William F. Buckley, Jr. – American writer, journalist and conservative commentator; founder of the National Review; author of God and Man at Yale
Anthony Burgess – English novelist, critic and composer
Morley Callaghan – Canadian novelist and short-story writer
Roy Campbell – South African poet; convert
Geoffrey Chaucer – English poet of the Middle Ages; wrote The Canterbury Tales; he mocks corrupt clergy, but also presents an ideal priest who teaches sound Catholic doctrine in "The Parson's Tale"
Brainard Cheney – American novelist and playwright; convert
G. K. Chesterton – English convert, wrote apologetics including Orthodoxy as well as novels, including The Man Who Was Thursday, poetry, biographies and literary studies, and lighter works including the "Father Brown" detective stories
Mary Higgins Clark – American mystery and thriller writer
Brian Coffey – Irish poet; wrote 'The Notion of Order According to St. Thomas Aquinas'
Robert Cormier – American young-adult writer
Felicitas Corrigan – English nun and writer
Richard Crashaw – 17th-century English metaphysical poet; convert; religious poetry includes the "Hymn to St. Teresa"

D–G

Bruce Dawe – Australian poet
Dorothy Day – American convert; co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement
Christopher Dawson – British historian and convert; proposed that the medieval Catholic Church was an essential factor in the rise of European civilisation
Princess Der Ling – Chinese-American writer of several memoirs, books, and magazine articles
Christopher Derrick – English non-fiction writer on contemporary issues
Michael Derrick – English journalist and pamphleteer
Annie Dillard – American writer of fiction and narrative non-fiction. While her website notes that she espouses no religion, her books deal deeply with theology and Catholic liturgy (especially Holy the Firm and Teaching a Stone to Talk)
E. J. Dionne – American journalist and political commentator; noted for coverage of Vatican City
Louisa Emily Dobrée (fl. ca. 1877–1917) – French-Irish writer
Eleanor C. Donnelly – American poet, short story writer and biographer
Anna Hanson Dorsey – American novelist and writer for young people
Ella Loraine Dorsey – American author, journalist, and translator
Maureen Dowd – American columnist and author, graduate of The Catholic University of America and practicing, but holds positions at variance with the church.^[3]
Ernest Dowson – English decadent poet; converted to Catholicism
John Dryden – poet of Restoration England; converted to Catholicism in his fifties; his long poem The Hind and the Panther (1687) explains the reasons for his conversion to the Church from Anglicanism
Eileen Duggan – New Zealand journalist and poet
Alice Thomas Ellis – English novelist and convert from Positivism; became a conservative Roman Catholic critic of the Second Vatican Council and a regular columnist at The Catholic Herald newspaper
John Martin Finlay – American poet and writer, converted to Catholicism a year before his death in 1991
Mitch Finley – contemporary American writer of more than 30 nonfiction books on Catholic topics
F. Scott Fitzgerald – American author, raised Catholic, married in a Catholic church, and categorised as Catholic, though he was not a practicing one for most of his life
Joseph Fitzmyer – American priest and writer
Robert J. Fox – American author of religious works; director and founder of the Fatima Family Apostolate
Sinéad Flanagan – Irish writer and poet (husband was Éamon de Valera)
Michael F. Flynn – American science fiction novelist, author of Eifelheim
Lady Antonia Fraser – English author, Roman Catholic (converted with her parents as a child); caused a public scandal in 1977 by leaving her Catholic husband for Harold Pinter
Brian Friel – Irish dramatist, some pre-Christian Celtic elements are in his writing too though
Maggie Gallagher – American socially conservative writer and commentator; has campaigned against abortion and gay marriage
Mary Onahan Gallery – American writer, editor and critic
Florence Magruder Gilmore (1881–1945) – American religious writer, novelist, and translator
Dana Gioia – American poet and critic; wrote Can Poetry Matter?; recipient of the Laetare Medal award
Robert Girardi – American author. His novels, especially A Vaudeville of Devils: Seven Moral Tales, examine ethical and religious themes
Rumer Godden – English writer. After her conversion, she wrote about the mystical aspects of the faith
Caroline Gordon – American author and short-story writer, convert
Clotilde Graves – Irish novelist and short-story writer, convert
Andrew Greeley – Irish-American Roman Catholic priest and novelist
Graham Greene – English novelist; a convert who wrote The Power and the Glory and focused on themes of human sin and divine mercy; other of his books in which Catholicism plays a central role are Brighton Rock, The Heart of the Matter and The End of the Affair

H–K

Radclyffe Hall – English novelist, author of The Well of Loneliness.
Ron Hansen – American writer, author of Mariette in Ecstasy and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Jon Hassler – American novelist –
Seamus Heaney – Irish poet; translated Beowulf; pre-Christian aspects are important in his work^[4] –
Peter Hebblethwaite – English journalist and biographer
Ernest Hemingway – American novelist and war correspondent; works include Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises
Tony Hendra – English author and satirist, author of Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
Solange Hertz – American spiritual writer
Patrick Holland – Australian novelist and short-story writer
Tony Hillerman – American author of murder mysteries in the Navajo Nation
Rosamund Hodge – American novelist and short-story writer; works include "Cruel Beauty" and "Crimson Bound"
Gerard Manley Hopkins – English Jesuit priest and poet; known for "The Wreck of the Deutschland" and "God's Grandeur"
Paul Horgan – American writer of historical books and novels
Stephen Hough – British musician and writer, author of The Bible as Prayer – a handbook for Lectio Divina and The Final Retreat
Deal W. Hudson – American writer, philosopher, radio show host, and political commentator.
Pauline von Hügel – Italian-British writer, founder of Corpus Christi Church, Boscombe
Robert Hutchinson – American religion writer, columnist and essayist, author of When in Rome: A Journal of Life in Vatican City,
Elizabeth Inchbald – English actress, novelist, and playwright
Laura Ingraham – American conservative commentator, author and radio show host; often appears on Fox News and EWTN
Lionel Johnson – English poet
Paul Johnson – English historian and journalist – wrote A History of Christianity,
David Jones – British modernist poet
James Joyce – Irish novelist, author of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
Julian of Norwich – English mystic and anchoress; her mystical experiences are recorded in A Revelation of Divine Love or simply Showings
George Kelly – Pulitzer Prize-winning actor and playwright
Margery Kempe – English mystic and author; wrote one of the first autobiographies in the English language
Jack Kerouac – American author of On the Road
Lady Amabel Kerr – British writer of biographies of religious figures
Joyce Kilmer – American author and poet. Poetry titles include The Robe of Christ and The Rosary
Russell Kirk – American conservative political theorist and author
Ronald Knox – English priest and classicist who translated the Bible from the Latin Vulgate in the 20th century
Dean Koontz – American novelist; known for moralistic thrillers
Peter Kreeft – American professor and author of books on Christian philosophy, theology and apologetics
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn – Austrian political writer and novelist, whose most influential works were first published in English

L–M

Jane Lane – English author of historical novels and biographies
George Parsons Lathrop – American writer who co-founded the Catholic Summer School of America
Margaret Wynne Lawless – American poet, author, educator and philanthropist
Patrick Anthony Lawlor – New Zealand writer
Penny Lernoux – American writer for the National Catholic Reporter, former nun and critic of the Catholic hierarchy and US foreign policy
Elmore Leonard – American writer of Western novels and screenwriter of films such as Get Shorty
David Lodge – British novelist; often writes about the post-Vatican II church
Barry Lopez – American short-story writer and essayist
John Lukacs – Hungarian-American historian
Sara Maitland – Feminist British writer; has made use of Catholic spiritual themes^[5]
Rosie Malek-Yonan – American human rights activist and author of The Crimson Field.
Paul Mariani – American poet, critic, memoirist; biographer of William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, and other literary figures.
Malachi Martin – Irish-American novelist
Bruce Marshall – Scottish writer
Francis A. Marzen – Hawaiian journalist
Sophie Dora Spicer Maude – English writer
Bernadette Devlin McAliskey – Northern Irish nationalist politician and writer
James McAuley – Australian poet. Some poems are imbued with a Catholic vision, e.g. "Captain Quiros"
Frank McCourt and Malachy McCourt – American Catholic brothers; Irish Catholic identities and cultures; writers/novelists
Henry McDonald – British writer and columnist from Northern Ireland for The Guardian
Ralph McInerny – Irish-American philosophy professor at Notre Dame University; wrote the Father Dowling series of mystery novels
Marshall McLuhan – Canadian philosopher and communications theorist
Thomas Merton – American monk and writer
Alice Meynell – British poet and suffragist, much of her poetry is religiously themed.
Sandra Miesel – American writer who co-wrote The Da Vinci Hoax
Thomas More – English statesman, lawyer, and martyr of Henry VIII's reign. Most of his works were written in Latin, but later devotional writings, such as Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation, were in English.
Thomas Moore – American monk and author of popular spiritual books – 19th-century Irish poet^[6]^[7]
J. B. Morton – *Malcolm Muggeridge – English journalist, broadcaster and writer
Clara Mulholland – Irish novelist, playwright, children's writer, translator
Timothy L. Murphy – American president of Santa Clara University, author of Discovery of America by the Irish Previous to the Ninth Century
Les Murray – Australian poet –

N–R

John Henry Newman – convert; became a Catholic priest and later a Cardinal; master of English prose, e.g., his Apologia Pro Vita Sua; also wrote poetry, e.g., Lead, Kindly Light and The Dream of Gerontius
Aidan Nichols – Catholic theologian
Henri Nouwen – Dutch Catholic priest; left academic post to work with the mentally challenged at the L'Arche community of Daybreak in Toronto, Canada
Michael Novak – contemporary politically conservative American political writer
Alfred Noyes – English poet; known for "The Highwayman"; wrote about his conversion to Catholicism in The Unknown God (1934)
Kate O'Beirne – wrote syndicated columns for the National Review and other conservative publications; also wrote books
Flannery O'Connor – her writing was deeply informed by the sacramental, and the Thomist notion that the created world is charged with God; like Graham Greene and Francois Mauriac she often focused on sin and human evil
Flann O'Brien – Irish comic writer
Katharine A. O'Keeffe O'Mahoney – Irish-born American educator, lecturer, writer
Lee Oser – American novelist and literary critic; Christian humanist
Coventry Patmore – 19th-century poet; a convert
Craig Paterson – philosopher and writer on bioethics
Joseph Pearce – English literary scholar and critic; former British National Front member who renounced racism on conversion; edited the anthology Flowers of Heaven: 1000 Years of Christian Verse; biographer of Oscar Wilde and Hilaire Belloc
Walker Percy – Southern American convert and novelist who helped create the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He was also the man who discovered and helped publish the work of the deceased John Kennedy Toole. His most well-known novel, The Moviegoer, won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1962.
David Pietrusza – American historian, editor of "Sursum Corda: Documents and Readings on the Traditional Latin Mass"
Ramesh Ponnuru – American conservative political writer; wrote The Party of Death attacking the pro-choice lobby in the United States
Alexander Pope – English poet; a Roman Catholic in a period when that was potentially unsafe in England (the early 18th century)
Katherine Anne Porter – on-again and then off-again convert
J. F. Powers – American writer of stories about clerical life
Tim Powers – American fantasy novelist, author of On Stranger Tides
Timothy Radcliffe – Dominican Order lecturer, writer, and professor
Piers Paul Read – contemporary but orthodox Catholic British novelist; vice president of the Catholic Writers Guild
Anne Rice – American writer; after a long separation from her Catholic faith during which she described herself as atheist, she returned to the church in 1998 and pledged to use her talents to glorify God; in 2010, she recanted her faith, declaring that she was going to follow Christ without Christianity, out of solidarity for her gay son
David Adams Richards – award-winning Canadian novelist, essayist and screenwriter; from New Brunswick
Francis Ripley – English priest; wrote about the faith
Richard Rohr – contemporary American Franciscan friar
Frederick Rolfe (alias Baron Corvo) – late-19th- and early-20th-century novelist; a failed aspirant to the priesthood
Raymond Roseliep – American priest and poet
Kevin Rush – American lay Catholic, playwright of award-winning stage play, Crossing Event Horizon, about a Catholic high school guidance counselor's midlife crisis, and novelist, author of Earthquake Weather, a novel for Catholic teens, and The Lance and the Veil, an adventure in the time of Christ.

S–Z

Anna T. Sadlier – Canadian writer, translator
Mary Anne Sadlier – Irish author
George Santayana – Spanish-American philosopher and novelist; baptised Catholic; despite taking a sceptical stance in his philosophy to belief in the existence of God, he identified himself with Catholic culture, referring to himself as an "aesthetic Catholic"
Steven Schloeder – American architect and theologian; wrote book Architecture in Communion (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1998)
William Shakespeare – regarded by most to be the greatest playwright and poet in the English language, as well as being one of the greatest writers in the world; although disputed, a growing number of biographers and critics hold that his religion was Catholic
John Patrick Shanley – screenwriter and playwright; educated by the Irish Christian Brothers and the Sisters of Charity
Patrick Augustine Sheehan – Canon Sheehan of Doneraile, Catholic priest, novelist essayist and poet; significant figure of the renouveau Catholique in English literature in the United States and in Europe
Dame Edith Sitwell – English poet; a convert
Robert Smith – American Catholic priest, author and educator
Joseph Sobran – wrote for The Wanderer, an orthodox Roman Catholic journal
St. Robert Southwell – 16th-century Jesuit; martyred during the persecutions of Elizabeth I; wrote religious poetry, i.e., "The Burning Babe", and Catholic tracts
Dame Muriel Spark – Scottish novelist; decided to join the Roman Catholic Church in 1954 and considered it crucial in her becoming a novelist in the tradition of Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene; novels often focus on human evil and sin
Robert Spencer – writer and commentator on Islam and jihad
Karl Stern – German-Jewish convert and psychiatrist
Francis Stuart – Australian-born Irish-nationalist Catholic convert; son-in-law of Maud Gonne; accused of anti-Semitism in his later years by Maire McEntee O'Brien and Kevin Myers
Jon M. Sweeney – American author of many books on religion, popular history, and memoir; convert
Susie Forrest Swift (later, Sister M. Imelda Teresa, 1862–1916), American Dominican nun, magazine editor, writer
Harry Sylvester – American journalist, short story writer, and novelist; most famous books were the Catholic novels Dayspring and Moon Gaffney
Ellen Tarry – writer of young-adult literature and The Third Door: The Autobiography of an American Negro Woman
Allen Tate – convert; poet and essayist
Mrs. Bartle Teeling – convert; articles, biographical sketches, books
Francis Thompson – 19th-century poet; wrote the devotional poem "The Hound of Heaven"
Colm Toibin – Irish actor and writer; wrote The Sign of the Cross
J. R. R. Tolkien – writer of The Lord of the Rings; devout and practicing Catholic
John Kennedy Toole – Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of A Confederacy of Dunces.
F. X. Toole (born Jerry Boyd) – Irish-American Catholic
Meriol Trevor – convert; author of historical novels, biographies, and children's stories
Lizzie Velásquez – writer of self-help, autobiographical, and young adult non-fiction
Elena Maria Vidal – historical novelist
Louie Verrecchio – Italian-American columnist for Catholic News Agency and author of Catholic faith formation materials and related books.
Christopher Villiers – British Catholic theologian and poet; author of Sonnets From the Spirit.
Maurice Walsh – one of the most popular Irish writers of the 1930s and 1940s, now chiefly remembered for the Hollywood film of his short story 'The Quiet Man;' wrote for the Irish Catholic magazine the Capuchin Annual and listed in the 1948 publication 'Catholic Authors: Contemporary Biographical Sketches, 1930–1952, Volume 1;'
Auberon Waugh – comic novelist and columnist; son of Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh – novelist; converted to Roman Catholicism in 1930; his religious ideas are manifest, either explicitly or implicitly, in all of his later work; strongly orthodox and conservative Roman Catholic
Morris West – Australian writer; several of his novels are set in the Vatican
Donald E. Westlake – American writer; three-time Edgar Award winner
Antonia White – author of four novels – including her 1933 novel Frost in May, based on her experiences at her Catholic boarding school – two children's books, and a short story collection.
Henry William Wilberforce – English journalist and essayist
Tennessee Williams – convert, American playwright and poet, who wrote such noted plays as The Glass Menagerie, The Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and A Streetcar Named Desire.
D.B. Wyndham-Lewis – English comic writer and biographer
Oscar Wilde – late-19th-century playwright and poet; fascinated by Catholicism as a young man and much of his early poetry shows this heavy influence; embraced a homosexual lifestyle later on, but converted to Catholicism on his deathbed (receiving a conditional baptism as there is some evidence, including his own vague recollection, that his mother had him baptised in the Catholic Church as a child^[8]^[9])
Gene Wolfe – science-fiction author; has written many novels and multivolume series; some, such as the Book of the New Sun and the Book of the Long Sun, are considered to be religious allegory
Julia Amanda Sargent Wood (pen name, Minnie Mary Lee; 1825 – 1903), American author
Carol Zaleski – American philosopher of religion, essayist and author of books on Catholic theology and on comparative religion

French language

There was a strong Catholic strain in 20th-century French literature, encompassing Paul Claudel, Georges Bernanos, François Mauriac, and Julien Green.

A–K

Honoré de Balzac – 19th-century novelist; wrote in a preface to La Comédie Humaine that "Christianity, and especially Catholicism, being a complete repression of man's depraved tendencies, is the greatest element in Social Order"
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly – 19th-century novelist and short story writer, who specialised in mysterious tales that examine hidden motivation and hinted evil bordering the supernatural
Charles Baudelaire – 19th-century decadent poet; long debate as to what extent Baudelaire was a believing Catholic; work is dominated by an obsession with the Devil and original sin, and often utilises Catholic imagery and theology
Georges Bernanos – novelist, a devout Catholic; novels include The Diary of a Country Priest
Leon Bloy – late-19th- and early-20th-century novelist
Louis Gabriel Ambroise de Bonald – counter-revolutionary philosophical writer
Jacques-Benigne Bossuet – 17th-century bishop, preacher and master of French prose; wrote famous funeral orations and doctrinal works
Pierre Boulle – writer; novels include The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) and Planet of the Apes (1963)
Paul Bourget – novelist
Pierre Boutang
Pauline Cassin Caro (1828/34/35–1901), novelist
Jean Pierre de Caussade – Jesuit and spiritual writer
The Vicomte de Chateaubriand – founder of Romanticism in French literature; returned to the Catholic faith of his 1790s boyhood; wrote apologetic for Christianity, "Génie du christianisme" ("The Genius of Christianity"), which contributed to a post-Revolutionary revival of Catholicism in France
Paul Claudel – devout Catholic poet; a leading figure in French poetry of the early 20th century; author of verse dramas focusing on religious themes
François Coppée
Pierre Corneille – founder of French tragedy; Jesuit-educated; translated The Imitation of Christ, Thomas à Kempis, into French verse
Léon Daudet
René Descartes – one of the most famous philosophers in the world; dubbed the father of modern philosophy; much subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings, which are studied closely to this day; also a mathematician and a scientist.
Pierre Duhem – late-19th-century physicist, historian and philosopher of physics
Saint Francis de Sales – Bishop of Geneva from 1602 to 1622; a Doctor of the Church; wrote classic devotional works, e.g., Introduction à la vie dévote (Introduction to the Devout Life) and Traité de l' Amour de Dieu (Treatise on the Love of God); Pope Pius XI proclaimed him patron saint of writers and journalists
François Fénelon – late-17th- and early-18th-century writer and archbishop; some of his writings were condemned as Quietist by Pope Innocent XII; he obediently submitted to the judgment of the Holy See
Pauline Fréchette (1889–1943), poet, dramatist, journalist, nun
Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange – neo-Thomist theologian
Henri Ghéon – French poet and critic; his experiences as an army doctor during the First World War saw him regain his Catholic faith (as described in his work "L'homme né de la guerre", "The Man Born Out of the War"); from then on much of his work portrays episodes from the lives of the saints
Étienne Gilson – philosophical and historical writer and leading neo-Thomist
René Girard – historian, literary critic and philosopher
Julien Green – novelist and diarist; convert from Protestantism; A devout Catholic, most of his books focused on the ideas of faith and religion as well as hypocrisy.
Pierre Helyot – Franciscan history writer
Hergé – nom de plume of the writer and illustrator of Tintin, one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century, answer to Le Petit Vingtième request for a Catholic reporter that fought evil around the world
Victor Hugo – French novelist and poet
Joris-Karl Huysmans – originally a decadent novelist, his later novels, En Route (1895), La Cathédrale (1898) and L'Oblat (1903), trace his conversion to Roman Catholicism
Max Jacob
Francis Jammes – late-19th- and early-20th-century poet
Pierre de Jarric – French missionary and author
Marcel Jouhandeau

L–Z

Brother Lawrence – 17th-century Carmelite lay brother; known for the spiritual classic "The Practice of the Presence of God"
Frédéric Le Play
Henri de Lubac – priest (later cardinal) and leading theologian
Joseph de Maistre – late-18th- and early-19th-century writer and philosopher from Savoy, one of the most influential intellectual opponents of the French Revolution and a firm defender of the authority of the Papacy
Joseph Malègue – novelist
Gabriel Marcel – convert; philosopher and playwright
Jacques Maritain – convert; Catholic philosophical writer
Henri Massis
François Mauriac – devout Catholic novelist; a strong influence on Graham Greene, whose themes are sin and redemption; recipient of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature
Saint Louis de Montfort – priest; wrote The True Devotion to Mary; Catholic saint
Malika Oufkir – Moroccan writer imprisoned with her mother and siblings in a secret Saharan prison for 15 years; these years are recounted in her autobiography, La Prisonniere, later translated into English as Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
Blaise Pascal – polymath (physicist, mathematician and philosopher); made significant contributions to various fields including probability and mathematics; wrote Pensées
Charles Péguy – poet; long poems include "Mysteres de Charité de Jeanne d'Arc" ("Mysteries of the Charity of Joan of Arc") and "Le mystère des saints innocents" ("The Mystery of the Holy Innocents")
Charles Perrault – wrote epic Christian poetry before establishing the fairy tale literary genre with Tales of Mother Goose
Jean Raspail – 20th-century French novelist; known for Camp of the Saints
Pierre Reverdy – 20th-century French poet
Arthur Rimbaud – 19th-century poet and confessional writing pioneer; author of A Season in Hell; self-professed "voyant", or seer
Saint Therese of Lisieux – 19th-century Carmelite nun and now a Doctor of the Church; autobiography, L'histoire d'un âme (The Story of a Soul), was a best-seller and remains a spiritual classic
Gustave Thibon
Jules Verne – science-fiction writer
Louis Veuillot – 19th-century French Catholic journalist

German language

A–M

Franz Xaver von Baader
Hans Urs von Balthasar – theologian; wrote literary criticism and biographies of the saints
Heinrich Böll – novelist
Clemens Brentano – German poet and novelist of Italian origins; leading figure in the Romantic movement; later withdrew to a monastery and acted as secretary to the visionary nun Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich
Hermann Broch – convert; author of modernist novels, The Death of Virgil and The Sleepwalkers
Paul-Henri Campbell – German-American poet, essayist, theologian, and religious tattoo expert
Heinrich Seuse Denifle – Austrian Dominican friar; historian and paleographer
Alfred Döblin – novelist; wrote the novel Berlin Alexanderplatz before he converted to Catholicism in 1941
Heimito von Doderer
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff – 19th-century poet; strict Catholic; many of her poems are religious
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff – 19th-century poet and novelist
Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz – 20th- to 21st-century philosopher, scholar
Ida Friederike Görres – 20th-century writer
Joseph Görres – late-18th- and early-19th-century journalist and writer
Günter Grass
Romano Guardini – Italian-born German theologian
Theodor Haecker – translator and writer; convert; opponent of the Nazis
Karl Ludwig von Haller
Dietrich von Hildebrand – philosopher and theologian (wrote in both German and English); convert
Hugo von Hofmannsthal – late-19th- and early-20th-century Austrian poet and playwright; later plays revealed a growing interest in religious, and particularly Roman Catholic, themes
Elisabeth Langgässer (1899–1950) – Catholic writer; the Nazis deemed her "too Jewish"; admired by Pope Benedict XVI
Gertrud von Le Fort – convert
Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Martin Mosebach – novelist, poet, playwright, and noted critic of the liturgical reforms which followed Vatican II
Adam Müller

N–Zedit

Ludwig von Pastor – historian; wrote multi-volume history of the popes
Josef Pieper – German Thomist philosopher
Erich Maria Remarque
Joseph Roth – convert
Max Scheler
Friedrich von Schlegel – convert
Aloysius Schlör (1805–1852) – Austrian ascetic writer
Carl Schmitt
Angelus Silesius – 17th-century convert to Catholicism from Lutheranism; became a priest and wrote religious poems, some of which became famous as hymns in the German-speaking world; some of his poetry seems to lean towards pantheism or quietism, but his prose works were orthodox, and the Catholic Encyclopedia says he repudiated any unorthodox interpretation of those poems
Robert Spaemann – philosopher
Othmar Spann
Friedrich von Spee – 17th-century Jesuit priest and author of religious poetry
Adrienne von Speyr
Adalbert Stifter
Count Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg – late-18th- and early 19th-century poet; convert
Blessed Henry Suso – 14th-century Dominican friar; devotional writer of the Middle Ages, including "the Minnesinger of Divine Love" in works such as his Little Book of Eternal Wisdom; his works contributed to the formation of German prose
Karl Freiherr von Vogelsang
Ernst Wiechert
Josef Weinheber

Icelandic languageedit

Halldór Laxness – journalist, novelist, playwright, poet and short-story writer; recipient of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature, pre-1927 works only
Jón Sveinsson – Jesuit children's writer; lived in France after age 13, but wrote children's books in Icelandic

Irish languageedit

Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill (also known as Eileen O' Connell) – Irish noblewoman and poet; known for a lament on the death of her Catholic husband
Aogán Ó Rathaille (also known as Egan O'Rahilly) – Irish Jacobite poet; wrote of a decline for Catholics in Ireland^[10]
Patrick Pearse (also known as Pádraic or Pádraig Pearse) – Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist and political activist; one of the leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916; educated by the Christian Brothers; established St. Enda's School; also wrote in English

Máirtín Ó Direáin, Irish-language poet.^[11]
Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin (1780–1838) – Irish language author and one-time hedge school master; is also known as Humphrey O'Sullivan. Was deeply involved in Daniel O'Connell's Catholic Emancipation movement and in relief work among the poor of County Kilkenny. His diary, published later as Cín Lae Amhlaoibh, was kept between 1827 and 1835. "His personal charisma allowed him to cross social and religious barriers, and he used this affability to collect signatures in support of Catholic Emancipation – even getting non-Catholic friends to add their names to 'The Protestant Declaration in favour of Catholic Emancipation'."^[12]

Italian languageedit

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