Catholic books : catholic minds

Abstract

Graham Greene is perhaps one of the first novelists that springs to a contemporary mind when Catholic writing and literature is mentioned. A convert to Catholicism, he, like many converts before him including John Henry Cardinal Newman (one of the most famous converts of them all) discovered that writing as a Catholic attracted attentions they had never received before conversion. For years Newman was under a Vatican cloud for some of his writing, and Greene was at the height of his international fame when his highly acclaimed novel The Power and the Glory received a &lsquo;negative judgement&rsquo; from the Holy Office (despite Cardinal Montini, later Pope Paul VI, as the Vatican&rsquo;s pro-Secretary of State for Ordinary Affairs intervening on Greene&rsquo;s behalf at the time). <br /