Pray for a Literary Revival
Novelist and publisher Debra Murphy is inviting friends to pray a novena for a Catholic literary revival. Her prayer invokes the intercession of St. Francis de Sales, Cardinal John Henry Newman, and Pope John Paul II — writers all. You’ll find the prayers here.
Murphy’s publishing house, Idylls Press, is scouting for serious Catholic fiction. Idylls just published Farrell O’Gorman’s novel Awaiting Orders, favorably reviewed here in America magazine. Like Flannery O’Connor and Walker Percy, the reviewer says, O’Gorman “is trying to explore how a Christian message of hope and redemption can attain credibility” in the modern world.