Catholic literary revival

French authors sometimes grouped in a Catholic literary revival include Léon Bloy, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Charles Péguy,[3] Paul Claudel, Georges Bernanos and François Mauriac,[4] as well as the philosophers Jacques Maritain and Gabriel Marcel.

[5] The main figures who have been seen as constituting a revival of a leading Catholic presence in national literary life in England include John Henry Newman, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hilaire Belloc, G. K. Chesterton, Alfred Noyes, Robert Hugh Benson, Ronald Knox, Muriel Spark, Graham Greene, and Evelyn Waugh.

[7] Although distinct, a movement towards explicit religious loyalty and themes in Anglican and Anglo-Catholic writers such as George MacDonald, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis and Dorothy L. Sayers is sometimes linked to the Catholic literary revival as a broader phenomenon.

[8] Due to the influence of Catholic literature from England in the United States,[9] the concept of "Catholic revival" is sometimes extended to include American authors such as Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, William Thomas Walsh, Warren Carroll, Fulton Sheen, Walker Percy, J. F. Powers and Flannery O'Connor.

One of the early leaders of the revival in the United States was the editor and publisher Francis X.