2006: Shining in Obscurity
The 2006 Catholic Literature Series focused on rediscovering the novels of four “forgotten” authors: Kristin Lavransdatter, by Sigrid Undset; A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller Jr.; The Diary of a Country Priest, by Georges Bernanos; and Lord of the World, by Robert Hugh Benson. Although each of these books had been considered a classic at one time, most of them are no longer studied in literature programs or read by the public, and the authors themselves have fallen into obscurity. The series hoped to reintroduce the Notre Dame community to these gems, or even allow readers to discover them for the first time. Watch video recordings of the lectures at the links below.
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“Sigrid Undset: Greatest Catholic Novelist of the Twentieth Century?” Michael Foley, Baylor University
- “The Call of the Desert in the Age of Ashes: The Centrality of Suffering in Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz,” Ralph Wood, Baylor University
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“Georges Bernanos and the Noonday Devil,” Ralph McInerny, University of Notre Dame
- “Robert Hugh Benson: Anticipating the Apocalypse,” David Solomon, University of Notre Dame
Past Series
- 2013: Children’s Literature
- 2012: J.R.R. Tolkien
- 2011: Victorian Catholics
- 2010: Strangers in a Strange Land
- 2009: Close to Catholic
- 2008: Wit’s Way to Wisdom
- 2007: Shakespeare and Catholicism
- 2006: Shining in Obscurity
- 2005: Tolkien’s Catholic Myth
- 2004: Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh
- 2003: Flannery O’Connor and Walker Percy
- 2002: G.K. Chesterton