The Literary Catholic

Professors Michelle C. Loris and June-Ann Greeley discuss Mary Karr, memoirist, poet, songwriter, professor, convert. Michelle Loris, Ph. D., Psy. D. Author of two books on fiction and several papers on post-traumatic stress, Dr. Loris is the founding director of Sacred Heart University’s first tutoring and writing center and founded and chairs the department of Catholic Studies, the University’s...

Author Joseph Pearce and host Rafael Pi Roman discuss C. S. Lewis, the writer and author of Mere Christianity, The Great Divorce, and other great works. Joseph Pearce is an internationally acclaimed author of bestselling books on Shakespeare, Chesterton, Solzhenitsyn, and C.S. Lewis. He serves as editor of the St. Austin Review and has recently launched The Inner Sanctum. This online platform offe...

Whether you're a philosophy nerd or simply inquisitive, join reconverted Catholic philosopher and author Patrick Flynn and host Suan Sonna, Director of Apologetics, for a lively conversation. Patrick FlynnPat Flynn is the author of The Best Argument for God Oct. 2023) and How to Be Better at (Almost) Everything. He is a reconverted Catholic, a philosopher (MA), a writer, a musician, a fitness...

Host William Baker discusses Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh with Professor Peter Sinclair. Dr. Peter Sinclair: Dr. Sinclair, Professor and Chair of Languages and Literature at Sacred Heart University, is a frequent panelist and contributor on Christianity in Literature and the Catholic influence on novelists and poets. His academic work has been published in journals such as Christianity and...

Rafael Pi Roman , Host, and Professor Brent Little discuss Flannery O'Connor. Dr. Brent Little: Dr. Little, an Associate Professor of Catholic Studies at Sacred Heart University, specializes in the relationship between faith and uncertainty in Catholic literature. He co-edited Revelation and Convergence: Flannery O'Connor and Her Catholic Heritage and recently published Acts of Faith and Imaginati...

William Baker, Host, and Professor Callie Tabor discuss Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Dr. Callie Tabor: Dr. Tabor is a lecturer of Catholic Studies at Sacred Heart University. Previously, Dr. Tabor was Associate Director of the Aquinas Center of Theology in Georgia. William Baker: Dr. Baker directs the Bernard L. Schwartz Center for Media, Public Policy & Education at Fordham U...

Host William Baker discusses The End of the Affair by Graham Greene with Professors Peter Sinclair and Brent Little. Dr. Peter Sinclair: Dr. Sinclair, Professor and Chair of Languages and Literature at Sacred Heart University, is a frequent panelist and contributor on Christianity in Literature and the Catholic influence on novelists and poets. His academic work has been published in journals such...

An in-depth conversation with Joseph Pearce and host Rafael Pi Roman. Joseph Pearce, originally from England, is an internationally acclaimed author with 30 published books, including bestsellers The Quest for Shakespeare, Tolkien: Man and Myth, and the most recent, Classic Literature Made Simple: Fifty Great Books in a Nutshell. He is the editor of the St. Austin Review. Pearce has given lectures...

Professor Emeritus Paul Lakeland and Professor Callie Tabor discuss Endo's Silence.

Dr. Michelle Loris and Host William Baker discuss The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Michelle Loris, Ph. D., Psy. D. Author of two books on fiction and several papers on post-traumatic stress, Dr. Loris is the founding director of Sacred Heart University’s first tutoring and writing center and founded and chairs the department of Catholic Studies, the University’s academic signature core seminars—the Hu...

A conversation with Rev. Damian Ference and host Rafael Pi Roman. Rev. Damian Ference PhD, Diocese of Cleveland, Vicar for Evangelization, Secretary for Parish Life and Special Ministries, Professor of Philosophy at Borromeo Seminary, author of award-winning books The Strangeness of Truth and Understanding the Hillbilly Thomist. Rafael Pi Roman is an acclaimed journalist with extensive experience...

A conversation with Michael Higgins, Ph. D. author and academic, and host Rafael Pi Roman. Michael Higgins, Ph. D., President and Vice-Chancellor Emeritus, St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo; Basilian Distinguished Fellow in Contemporary Catholic Thought, St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto; and Distinguished Professor of Catholic Thought Emeritus, Sacred Heart Un...

Pär Lagerkvist, Nobel laureate, little known to American readers, imagines Barabbas, drawn to the believers, struggling to understand and believe. June-Ann Greeley, Ph. D., With a focus on Classical languages and literature and Medieval Studies, especially medieval literature and medieval spirituality, Dr. Greeley's scholarship includes late antique and medieval theology, literature, and religious...

Host Rafael Pi Roman and Dr. Alan Perry discuss author Giovannino Guareschi and the Catholic imagination. Professor Alan Perry is Gettysburg College’s inaugural Mahan Professor of Christian Studies. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame and Middlebury College and has a Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His scholarly interests focus on the commemoration and representation of...

In an age hungry for meaning, can poetry point you to God? A conversation with award-winning poet James Matthew Wilson and host June-Ann Greeley. James Matthew Wilson is the Cullen Foundation Chair in English Literature and the founding director of the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Saint Thomas. He serves as poet-in-residence of the Benedict XVI Institute, scholar-in-residen...

Can a cloth prove the Resurrection? Patrick Riley and Rafael Pi Roman explore the history, science, and theology of the Shroud of Turin. Patrick Riley is a Connecticut resident currently enrolled in Postgraduate Shroud Studies at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, Othonia in Rome. Rafael Pi Roman, Program Host, is an acclaimed journalist with extensive experience in public affairs and po...

He helped shape Hollywood’s Golden Age — then vanished from memory. Myles Connolly, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter and advisor to Frank Capra on It’s a Wonderful Life and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, once captivated the nation with his novel Mr. Blue — a radiant counterblast to cynicism just as Dorothy Day’s Catholic Worker movement was born. So what inspired him? And what does his vision say t...

A conversation with Author and Professor Josh Rasmussen and host Suan Sonna on How Reason Can Lead to God - A Philosopher’s Bridge to Faith. Josh Rasmussen, Ph. D.With a Ph. D. from the University of Notre Dame, Josh Rasmussen is Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University, where he specializes in metaphysics and philosophy of religion. He is the author of several thoughtful and accessible books,...

A deep dive into what Catholics believe - Mary as Mother of God, Ever Virgin, and Queen, with professor and author Robert Fastiggi and host Suan Sonna. Suan Sonna Suan Sonna is the Director of Apologetics and the Forum for Catholic Discipleship for the Diocese of Bridgeport. Suan has a B.A. in Philosophy from Kansas State University, an M.T.S. in New Testament studies from Harvard Divinity School,...

Explore the spiritual battle in an ordinary parish, and the meaning of "All is grace."Brent Little, Ph. D., Associate Professor of Catholic Studies at Sacred Heart University, and author of Acts of Faith and Imagination: Theological Patterns in Catholic Fiction, published by the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.Rafael Pi Roman, Program Host, is an acclaimed journalist with extensi...

Rafael Pi Roman and Professor June Ann Greeley discuss Dante. With a focus on Classical languages and literatureand Medieval Studies, Dr. Greeley's scholarship includes late antique and medieval theology, literature, and religious history. She explores medieval mystics, sacred art and architecture, and feminist theory. Dr. Greeley has presented at numerous conferences, and her research has been pu...