{"id":3687,"date":"2011-12-22T11:33:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T16:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/?p=3687"},"modified":"2017-01-25T17:32:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T22:32:21","slug":"where-have-all-the-catholic-writers-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2011\/12\/where-have-all-the-catholic-writers-gone.html","title":{"rendered":"Where Have All the Catholic Writers Gone&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2011\/11\/where-have-all-the-catholic-writers-gone.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Here\u2019s an interesting article on The Millions<\/a>. Writer <a href=\"http:\/\/robertfay.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Robert Fay<\/a> notes, <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a time in the middle of the 20th Century when Catholic writers, many of them converts to the Church, were icons of the Anglo-American literary scene\u2026<strong>The obvious reason for this literary vacuum is that the Christian faith, and the Catholic Church in particular, have been in full-cultural retreat since the 1960s<\/strong>.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 Here\u2019s an interesting article on The Millions. Writer Robert Fay notes, \u201cThere was a time in the middle of the 20th Century when Catholic writers, many of them converts to the Church, were icons of the Anglo-American literary scene\u2026The obvious reason for this literary vacuum is that the Christian faith, and the Catholic Church [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-of-the-west"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Where Have All the Catholic Writers Gone...<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"... Here&#039;s an interesting article on The Millions. 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