2010: Strangers in a Strange Land
The ninth annual Catholic Literature Series examined four American Catholic authors who poignantly engaged American culture while standing at a distance from it: Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, J.F. Powers, and Ralph McInerny. Each lecture addressed in some way the complex commitments each of these authors had to his Church and country. Watch video recordings of the lectures at the links below.
- “Ralph McInerny,” David Solomon, University of Notre Dame
- “Walker Percy,” John O’Callaghan, University of Notre Dame
- “Branding with the Cross: Flannery O’Connor on the Comic Character of Christian Formation,” Ralph Wood, Baylor University
- “J.F. Powers,” Marvin O’Connell, Emeritus, 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