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Catholic fiction of the type we're publishing is stories that we know faithful Catholics will enjoy - stories they can escape with, laugh at, cry with; stories that will enrich their lives.

I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.

Our culture places a very high value on storytelling, and the more that Catholic writers are able to master that craft, the more they can speak to the culture, the more powerful their stories will be.

I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them.

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

'Catholic writer' seems like you have an agenda of evangelization, as if you were somehow influenced in your choice of perspective by dogma or canon law. That has nothing to do with me. I don't have a lot in common with other 'Catholic' writers.

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years.