Asian languages

Chinese language

• Xu Guangqi – one of theThree Pillars of Chinese Catholicism. He was a Chinese scholar-bureaucrat, agronomist, astronomer, mathematician, and writer during the Ming dynasty. Xu was a colleague and collaborator of the Italian Jesuits Matteo Ricci andSabatino de Ursis and assisted their translation of several classic Western texts into Chinese, including part of Euclid's Elements.
• Su Xuelin – Chinese educator, essayist, novelist and poet; she describedThorny Heart as a description of her 'personal journey on the road to Catholicism'^[1]
• John Ching Hsiung Wu – jurist and author; wrote in Chinese, English, French, and German on Christian spirituality, Chinese literature and legal topics
• Li Yingshi – Ming Chinese military officer and a renowned mathematician,[1] astrologer and feng shui expert, who was among the first Chinese literati to become Christian. Converted to Catholicism by Matteo Ricci and Diego de Pantoja, the first two Jesuits to establish themselves in Beijing.

Japanese language

• Shusaku Endo – Japanese Roman Catholic novelist; recipient of 1955Akutagawa Prize
• Ayako Sono – Japanese Roman Catholic novelist; part of the Third Generation
• Jacobo Kyushei Tomonaga – He composed one of the first modern Japanese dictionaries.

Vietnamese language

• Bảo Đại – last emperor ofVietnam

European languages

Albanian language

• Gjon Buzuku – priest; wrote the first known printed book in Albanian.
• Pal Engjëlli – Archbishop; wrote the first known document in Albanian
• Gjergj Fishta – poet; in 1937 he completed and published his epic masterpiece Lahuta e Malcís, an epic poem written in the Gheg dialect of Albanian. It contains 17,000 lines and is considered the "Albanian Iliad". He is regarded among the most influential cultural and literary figures of the 20th century in Albania.
• Ndre Mjeda –Jesuit poet; poems include "The Nightingale's Lament" and "Imitation of the Holy Virgin"
• Giulio Variboba – poet; priest, of the Arbëresh Albanian people of Southern Italy, regarded by many Albanians as the first genuine poet in all of Albanian literature
• Pjetër Budi – Bishop; known for his work"Doktrina e Kërshtenë" (The Christian Doctrine), an Albanian translation of thecatechism ofRobert Bellarmine.

Bosnian language

• Matija Divković – Bosnian Franciscan and writer from Bosnia; considered to be the founder of the modern literature in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Croatian language

• Ivan Gundulić – poet; work embodies central characteristics of Catholic Counter-Reformation
• Marko Marulić – poet; inspired by the Bible, Antique writers, and Christianhagiographies
• Andrija Kačić Miošić – poet
• Petar Preradović – was a Croatian poet, writer, and military general of Serb origin. He was one of the most important Croatian poets of the 19th century Illyrian movement and the main representative of romanticism in Croatia.
• Mihalj Šilobod Bolšić –Roman Catholic priest, mathematician, writer, and musical theorist primarily known for writing the first Croatian arithmetic textbookArithmatika Horvatzka (published in Zagreb, 1758).

Czech language

• Jindřich Šimon Baar – ordained as a Catholic priest in 1892; wrote about church reform
• Otokar Březina - Catholic in name only (readMé svědectví o Otokaru Březinovi by Deml)
• Jan Čep - writer of novels; a translator from French
• Jakub Deml – between 1902 and 1909 he was a Catholic priest; suspended in 1912; publishing of his books was prohibited after the communist coup
• Bedřich Bridel - a missionary living in the Baroque era
• Ivan Diviš – converted to Catholicism in 1964 (during the Communist period); he left the country after thePrague Spring ended
• Jaroslav Durych – originally a physician; essayist and poet; wrote the novelBloudění (from theThirty Years' War), which was translated into several languages, including English
• Tomáš Halík – priest and writer; priest in the underground church during Communism
• Bohuslav Hasištejnský z Lobkovic – elected Bishop ofOlomouc, but was refused by the pope; in the times of Renaissance he stood firm with the Catholic Faith
• Václav Havel – playwright andPresident of the Czech Republic, converted on his deathbed
• Vladimír Holan – left theCommunist Party of Czechoslovakia and re-entered the Catholic Church
• Jan Lipšanský – contemporary Czech writer of Catholic essays (some of them broadcast byVatican Radio) and some mystery stories with a modern monk solving them
• Bohuslav Reynek - Catholic poet
• Jan Zahradníček – Catholic mystic poet of the early and mid-20th century; because of his writings he was imprisoned as an enemy of the Communists after their coup in 1948

Danish language

• Jens Johannes Jørgensen – late-19th and early-20th-century poet and novelist; also a biographer of Catholic saints

Dutch language

• Bertus Aafjes (born Lambertus Jacobus Johannes Aafjes) – 20th-century poet; poems such as "Een Voetreis naar Rome" (1946) and "In den Beginne" (1949) show a strong Catholic faith
• Guido Gezelle – priest (from the predominantly CatholicFlanders)
• Vonne van der Meer – converted in the 1990s; married toWillem Jan Otten
• Henri Nouwen
• Willem Jan Otten – converted in the 1990s, a few years after his wifeVonne van der Meer
• Gerard Reve
• Godfried Bomans
• Joost van den Vondel – dramatist and poet of theDutch Golden Age; converted to Catholicism from aMennonite background around 1641; his masterpieces are his dramas on religious and biblical themes, e.g.,Lucifer,Noah and his short poems

English language

A–C

• Lord Acton – 19th-century English historian from aCatholic Recusant family; disagreed withultramontanism and hadOld Catholic Church sympathies, but never left the church; known for the aphorism that "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"
• John L. Allen Jr. – American journalist who has written onOpus Dei andPope Benedict XVI
• Elizabeth Anscombe – English philosopher
• Kenneth Owen Arvidson (1938–2011) – New Zealand poet
• Maurice Baring – English man of letters, convert, friend of Belloc and Chesterton
• James K Baxter (1926–1972) – New Zealand poet, dramatist, literary critic and social commentator; a convert to Catholicism^[2]
• Hilaire Belloc – strongly held, orthodox Catholic views; wrote apologetics, famous comic verse, historical, political and economic works and well-known account of a pilgrimage he took on foot, "The Path to Rome"; French-born but became a British subject and politician
• Christopher Beha – American novelist and revert to Catholicism.
• Robert Hugh Benson – English convert and priest who wroteLord of the World and apologetics
• William Peter Blatty – American screenwriter and novelist; known for the novelThe Exorcist andAcademy Award-winning screenplay adapting same
• Martin Stanislaus Brennan – American priest and scientist; wrote books about science and religion
• Heywood Broun – American journalist who covered social justice issues, a convert
• George Mackay Brown – Scottish poet and author
• Orestes Brownson – 19th-century American writer and convert
• Vincent Buckley – Australian poet
• William F. Buckley, Jr. – American writer, journalist and conservative commentator; founder of theNational Review; author ofGod and Man at Yale
• Anthony Burgess – English novelist, critic and composer
• Morley Callaghan – Canadian novelist and short-story writer
• Roy Campbell – South African poet; convert
• Geoffrey Chaucer – English poet of theMiddle Ages; wroteThe Canterbury Tales; he mocks corrupt clergy, but also presents an ideal priest who teaches sound Catholic doctrine in "The Parson's Tale"
• Brainard Cheney – American novelist and playwright; convert
• G. K. Chesterton – English convert, wrote apologetics includingOrthodoxy as well as novels, includingThe Man Who Was Thursday, poetry, biographies and literary studies, and lighter works including the "Father Brown" detective stories
• Mary Higgins Clark – American mystery and thriller writer
• Brian Coffey – Irish poet; wrote 'The Notion of Order According to St. Thomas Aquinas'
• Suzanne Collins – American author; wroteThe Hunger Games
• Robert Cormier – American young-adult writer
• Felicitas Corrigan – English nun and writer
• Richard Crashaw – 17th-century Englishmetaphysical poet; convert; religious poetry includes the "Hymn to St. Teresa"

D–G

• Bruce Dawe – Australian poet
• Dorothy Day – American convert; co-founder of theCatholic Worker Movement
• Christopher Dawson – British historian and convert; proposed that the medieval Catholic Church was an essential factor in the rise of European civilisation
• Princess Der Ling – Chinese-American writer of several memoirs, books, and magazine articles
• Christopher Derrick – English non-fiction writer on contemporary issues
• Michael Derrick – English journalist and pamphleteer
• Annie Dillard – American writer of fiction and narrative non-fiction. While her website notes that she espouses no religion, her books deal deeply with theology and Catholic liturgy (especially Holy the Firm and Teaching a Stone to Talk)
• E. J. Dionne – American journalist and political commentator; noted for coverage ofVatican City
• Louisa Emily Dobrée (fl. ca. 1877–1917) – French-Irish writer
• Eleanor C. Donnelly – American poet, short story writer and biographer
• Anna Hanson Dorsey – American novelist and writer for young people
• Ella Loraine Dorsey – American author, journalist, and translator
• Maureen Dowd – American columnist and author, graduate ofThe Catholic University of America and practicing, but holds positions at variance with the church.^[3]
• Ernest Dowson – English decadent poet; converted to Catholicism
• John Dryden – poet ofRestoration England; converted to Catholicism in his fifties; his long poemThe Hind and the Panther (1687) explains the reasons for his conversion to the Church from Anglicanism
• Eileen Duggan – New Zealand journalist and poet
• Paul Elie - American novelist and contributor toThe New Yorker on Catholic topics, and affiliate ofGeorgetown University
• Alice Thomas Ellis – English novelist and convert fromPositivism; became a conservative Roman Catholic critic of theSecond Vatican Council and a regular columnist atThe Catholic Herald newspaper
• Anthony Esolen – American translator, poet, and commentator
• Abigail Favale – American fiction writer, professor at the University of Notre Dame, author ofThe Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory
• John Martin Finlay – American poet and writer, converted to Catholicism a year before his death in 1991
• Mitch Finley – contemporary American writer of more than 30 nonfiction books on Catholic topics
• F. Scott Fitzgerald – American author, raised Catholic, married in a Catholic church, and categorised as Catholic, though he was not a practicing one for most of his life
• Joseph Fitzmyer – American priest and writer
• Robert J. Fox – American author of religious works; director and founder of theFatima Family Apostolate
• Sinéad Flanagan – Irish writer and poet (husband wasÉamon de Valera)
• Michael F. Flynn – American science fiction novelist, author ofEifelheim
• LadyAntonia Fraser – English author, Roman Catholic (converted with her parents as a child); caused a public scandal in 1977 by leaving her Catholic husband forHarold Pinter
• Brian Friel – Irish dramatist, some pre-Christian Celtic elements are in his writing too though
• Maggie Gallagher – American socially conservative writer and commentator; has campaigned against abortion andgay marriage
• Mary Onahan Gallery – American writer, editor and critic
• Florence Magruder Gilmore (1881–1945) – American religious writer, novelist, and translator
• Dana Gioia – American poet and critic; wroteCan Poetry Matter?; recipient of theLaetare Medal award
• Robert Girardi – American author. His novels, especiallyA Vaudeville of Devils: Seven Moral Tales, examine ethical and religious themes
• Rumer Godden – English writer. After her conversion, she wrote about the mystical aspects of the faith
• Caroline Gordon – American author and short-story writer, convert
• Clotilde Graves – Irish novelist and short-story writer, convert
• Andrew Greeley – Irish-American Roman Catholic priest and novelist
• Graham Greene – English novelist; a convert who wroteThe Power and the Glory and focused on themes of human sin and divine mercy; other of his books in which Catholicism plays a central role areBrighton Rock,The Heart of the Matter andThe End of the Affair

H–K

• Radclyffe Hall – English novelist, author ofThe Well of Loneliness.
• Ron Hansen – American writer, author ofMariette in Ecstasy andThe Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
• Jon Hassler – American novelist –
• Seamus Heaney – Irish poet; translatedBeowulf; pre-Christian aspects are important in his work^[4] –
• Peter Hebblethwaite – English journalist and biographer
• Ernest Hemingway – American novelist and war correspondent; works includeFarewell to Arms andThe Sun Also Rises
• Tony Hendra – English author and satirist, author ofFather Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
• Solange Hertz – American spiritual writer
• Patrick Holland – Australian novelist and short-story writer
• Tony Hillerman – American author of murder mysteries in theNavajo Nation
• Rosamund Hodge – American novelist and short-story writer; works include "Cruel Beauty" and "Crimson Bound"
• Gerard Manley Hopkins – English Jesuit priest and poet; known for "The Wreck of the Deutschland" and "God's Grandeur"
• Paul Horgan – American writer of historical books and novels
• Stephen Hough – British musician and writer, author ofThe Bible as Prayer – a handbook forLectio Divina andThe Final Retreat
• Deal W. Hudson – American writer, philosopher, radio show host, and political commentator.
• Pauline von Hügel – Italian-British writer, founder ofCorpus Christi Church, Boscombe
• Robert Hutchinson – American religion writer, columnist and essayist, author ofWhen in Rome: A Journal of Life in Vatican City,
• Elizabeth Inchbald – English actress, novelist, and playwright
• Laura Ingraham – American conservative commentator, author and radio show host; often appears onFox News andEWTN
• Lionel Johnson – English poet
• Paul Johnson – English historian and journalist – wroteA History of Christianity,
• David Jones – British modernist poet
• James Joyce – Irish novelist, author ofUlysses andFinnegans Wake
• Julian of Norwich – English mystic and anchoress; her mystical experiences are recorded inA Revelation of Divine Love or simplyShowings
• George Kelly –Pulitzer Prize-winning actor and playwright
• Margery Kempe – English mystic and author; wrote one of the first autobiographies in the English language
• Jack Kerouac – American author ofOn the Road
• Lady Amabel Kerr – British writer of biographies of religious figures
• Joyce Kilmer – American author and poet. Poetry titles includeThe Robe of Christ andThe Rosary
• Russell Kirk – American conservative political theorist and author
• Ronald Knox – English priest and classicist who translated theBible from theLatin Vulgate in the 20th century
• Dean Koontz – American novelist; known for moralisticthrillers
• Peter Kreeft – American professor and author of books on Christian philosophy, theology and apologetics
• Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn – Austrian political writer and novelist, whose most influential works were first published in English

L–M

• Jane Lane – English author of historical novels and biographies
• George Parsons Lathrop – American writer who co-founded theCatholic Summer School of America
• Margaret Wynne Lawless – American poet, author, educator and philanthropist
• Patrick Anthony Lawlor – New Zealand writer
• Penny Lernoux – American writer for theNational Catholic Reporter, former nun and critic of the Catholic hierarchy and US foreign policy
• Elmore Leonard – American writer of Western novels and screenwriter of films such asGet Shorty
• Eddie Linden – Scottish-Irish poet and editor ofAquarius magazine
• David Lodge – British novelist; often writes about the post-Vatican II church
• Barry Lopez – American short-story writer and essayist
• John Lukacs – Hungarian-American historian
• Sara Maitland – Feminist British writer; has made use of Catholic spiritual themes^[5]
• Rosie Malek-Yonan – American human rights activist and author ofThe Crimson Field.
• Paul Mariani – American poet, critic, memoirist; biographer ofWilliam Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, and other literary figures.
• Malachi Martin – Irish-American novelist
• Bruce Marshall – Scottish writer
• Francis A. Marzen – Hawaiian journalist
• Sophie Dora Spicer Maude – English writer
• Bernadette Devlin McAliskey – Northern Irish nationalist politician and writer
• James McAuley – Australian poet. Some poems are imbued with a Catholic vision, e.g. "Captain Quiros"
• Frank McCourt andMalachy McCourt – American Catholic brothers; Irish Catholic identities and cultures; writers/novelists
• Henry McDonald – British writer and columnist from Northern Ireland forThe Guardian
• Ralph McInerny – Irish-American philosophy professor atNotre Dame University; wrote theFather Dowling series of mystery novels
• Marshall McLuhan – Canadian philosopher and communications theorist
• Thomas Merton – American monk and writer
• Alice Meynell – British poet and suffragist, much of her poetry is religiously themed.
• Sandra Miesel – American writer who co-wroteThe Da Vinci Hoax
• Thomas More – English statesman, lawyer, and martyr ofHenry VIII's reign. Most of his works were written in Latin, but later devotional writings, such asDialogue of Comfort against Tribulation, were in English.
• Thomas Moore – American monk and author of popular spiritual books – 19th-century Irish poet^[6][7]
• J. B. Morton – *Malcolm Muggeridge – English journalist, broadcaster and writer
• Clara Mulholland – Irish novelist, playwright, children's writer, translator
• Timothy L. Murphy – American president ofSanta Clara University, author ofDiscovery of America by the Irish Previous to the Ninth Century
• Les Murray – Australian poet –

N–R

• John Henry Newman – convert; became a Catholic priest and later a Cardinal; master of English prose, e.g., hisApologia Pro Vita Sua; also wrote poetry, e.g.,Lead, Kindly Light andThe Dream of Gerontius
• Aidan Nichols – Catholic theologian
• Henri Nouwen – Dutch Catholic priest; left academic post to work with the mentally challenged at the L'Arche community of Daybreak in Toronto, Canada
• Michael Novak – contemporary politically conservative American political writer
• Alfred Noyes – English poet; known for "The Highwayman"; wrote about his conversion to Catholicism inThe Unknown God (1934)
• Kate O'Beirne – wrote syndicated columns for theNational Review and other conservative publications; also wrote books
• Flannery O'Connor – her writing was deeply informed by the sacramental, and the Thomist notion that the created world is charged with God; likeGraham Greene andFrancois Mauriac she often focused on sin and human evil
• Flann O'Brien – Irish comic writer
• Michael D. O'Brien – Canadian Catholic novelist; works include the "Father Elijah" series
• Katharine A. O'Keeffe O'Mahoney – Irish-born American educator, lecturer, writer
• Lee Oser – American novelist and literary critic; Christian humanist
• Coventry Patmore – 19th-century poet; a convert
• Craig Paterson – philosopher and writer onbioethics
• Joseph Pearce – English literary scholar and critic; formerBritish National Front member who renounced racism on conversion; edited the anthologyFlowers of Heaven: 1000 Years of Christian Verse; biographer ofOscar Wilde andHilaire Belloc
• Walker Percy – Southern American convert and novelist who helped create theFellowship of Southern Writers. He was also the man who discovered and helped publish the work of the deceasedJohn Kennedy Toole. His most well-known novel,The Moviegoer, won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1962.
• David Pietrusza – American historian, editor of "Sursum Corda: Documents and Readings on the Traditional Latin Mass"
• Ramesh Ponnuru – American conservative political writer; wroteThe Party of Death attacking thepro-choice lobby in the United States
• Alexander Pope – English poet; a Roman Catholic in a period when that was potentially unsafe in England (the early 18th century)
• Katherine Anne Porter – on-again, off-again convert
• J. F. Powers – American writer of stories about clerical life
• Tim Powers – American fantasy novelist, author ofOn Stranger Tides
• Timothy Radcliffe –Dominican Order lecturer, writer, and professor
• Piers Paul Read – contemporary but orthodox Catholic British novelist; vice president of theCatholic Writers Guild
• Anne Rice – American writer; after a long separation from her Catholic faith during which she described herself asatheist, she returned to the church in 1998 and pledged to use her talents to glorify God; in 2010, she recanted her faith, declaring that she was going to follow Christ without Christianity, out of solidarity for her gay son
• David Adams Richards – award-winning Canadian novelist, essayist and screenwriter; from New Brunswick
• Francis Ripley – English priest; wrote about the faith
• Carol Jackson Robinson – American convert, journalist, author, and public speaker
• Richard Rohr – contemporary American Franciscan friar
• Frederick Rolfe (aliasBaron Corvo) – late-19th- and early-20th-century novelist; a failed aspirant to the priesthood
• Raymond Roseliep – American priest and poet
• Kevin Rush – American lay Catholic, playwright of award-winning stage play, Crossing Event Horizon, about a Catholic high school guidance counselor's midlife crisis, and novelist, author of Earthquake Weather, a novel for Catholic teens, and The Lance and the Veil, an adventure in the time of Christ.

S–Z

• Anna T. Sadlier – Canadian writer, translator
• Mary Anne Sadlier – Irish author
• George Santayana – Spanish-American philosopher and novelist; baptised Catholic; despite taking a sceptical stance in his philosophy to belief in the existence of God, he identified himself with Catholic culture, referring to himself as an "aesthetic Catholic"
• Steven Schloeder – American architect and theologian; wrote bookArchitecture in Communion (San Francisco:Ignatius Press, 1998)
• William Shakespeare – regarded by most to be the greatest playwright and poet in the English language, as well as being one of the greatest writers in the world; although disputed, a growing number of biographers and critics hold thathis religion was Catholic
• John Patrick Shanley – screenwriter and playwright; educated by the IrishChristian Brothers and theSisters of Charity
• Patrick Augustine Sheehan – Canon Sheehan of Doneraile, Catholic priest, novelist essayist and poet; significant figure of the renouveau Catholique in English literature in the United States and in Europe
• DameEdith Sitwell – English poet; a convert
• Robert Smith – American Catholic priest, author and educator
• Joseph Sobran – wrote forThe Wanderer, an orthodox Roman Catholic journal
• St.Robert Southwell – 16th-century Jesuit; martyred during the persecutions ofElizabeth I; wrote religious poetry, i.e., "The Burning Babe", and Catholic tracts
• DameMuriel Spark – Scottish novelist; decided to join the Roman Catholic Church in 1954 and considered it crucial in her becoming a novelist in the tradition ofEvelyn Waugh andGraham Greene; novels often focus on human evil and sin
• Robert Spencer – writer and commentator on Islam and jihad
• Karl Stern – German-Jewish convert and psychiatrist
• Francis Stuart – Australian-born Irish-nationalist Catholic convert; son-in-law ofMaud Gonne; accused of anti-Semitism in his later years by Maire McEntee O'Brien and Kevin Myers
• Jon M. Sweeney – American author of many books on religion, popular history, and memoir; convert
• Susie Forrest Swift (later, Sister M. Imelda Teresa, 1862–1916), American Dominican nun, magazine editor, writer
• Harry Sylvester – American journalist, short story writer, and novelist; most famous books were the Catholic novelsDayspring andMoon Gaffney
• Ellen Tarry – writer of young-adult literature andThe Third Door: The Autobiography of an American Negro Woman
• Allen Tate – convert; poet and essayist
• Mrs. Bartle Teeling – convert; articles, biographical sketches, books
• Francis Thompson – 19th-century poet; wrote the devotional poem "TheHound of Heaven"
• Colm Toibin – Irish actor and writer; wroteThe Sign of the Cross
• J. R. R. Tolkien – writer ofThe Lord of the Rings; devout and practicing Catholic
• John Kennedy Toole – Pulitzer Prize-winning writer ofA Confederacy of Dunces.
• F. X. Toole (born Jerry Boyd) – Irish-American Catholic
• Meriol Trevor – convert; author of historical novels, biographies, and children's stories
• Lizzie Velásquez – writer of self-help, autobiographical, and young adult non-fiction
• Elena Maria Vidal – historical novelist
• Louie Verrecchio – Italian-American columnist forCatholic News Agency and author of Catholic faith formation materials and related books.
• Christopher Villiers – British Catholic theologian and poet; author ofSonnets From the Spirit.
• Maurice Walsh – one of the most popular Irish writers of the 1930s and 1940s, now chiefly remembered for the Hollywood film of his short story 'The Quiet Man;' wrote for the Irish Catholic magazine theCapuchin Annual and listed in the 1948 publication 'Catholic Authors: Contemporary Biographical Sketches, 1930–1952, Volume 1;'
• Auberon Waugh – comic novelist and columnist; son ofEvelyn Waugh
• Evelyn Waugh – novelist; converted to Roman Catholicism in 1930; his religious ideas are manifest, either explicitly or implicitly, in all of his later work; strongly orthodox and conservative Roman Catholic
• Morris West – Australian writer; several of his novels are set in theVatican
• Donald E. Westlake – American writer; three-timeEdgar Award winner
• Antonia White – author of four novels – including her 1933 novelFrost in May, based on her experiences at her Catholic boarding school – two children's books, and a short story collection.
• Henry William Wilberforce – English journalist and essayist
• Tennessee Williams – convert, American playwright and poet, who wrote such noted plays asThe Glass Menagerie,The Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, andA Streetcar Named Desire.
• D.B. Wyndham-Lewis – English comic writer and biographer
• Oscar Wilde – late-19th-century playwright and poet; fascinated by Catholicism as a young man and much of his early poetry shows this heavy influence; embraced a homosexual lifestyle later on, but converted to Catholicism on his deathbed (receiving aconditional baptism as there is some evidence, including his own vague recollection, that his mother had him baptised in the Catholic Church as a child^[8][9])
• Gene Wolfe – science-fiction author; has written many novels and multivolume series; some, such as theBook of the New Sun and theBook of the Long Sun, are considered to be religious allegory
• Julia Amanda Sargent Wood (pen name,Minnie Mary Lee; 1825 – 1903), American author
• Carol Zaleski – American philosopher of religion, essayist and author of books on Catholic theology and on comparative religion

French language

A–K

• Honoré de Balzac – 19th-century novelist; wrote in a preface to La Comédie Humaine that "Christianity, and especially Catholicism, being a complete repression of man's depraved tendencies, is the greatest element in Social Order"
• Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly – 19th-century novelist and short story writer, who specialised in mysterious tales that examine hidden motivation and hinted evil bordering the supernatural
• Charles Baudelaire – 19th-century decadent poet; long debate as to what extent Baudelaire was a believing Catholic; work is dominated by an obsession with the Devil andoriginal sin, and often utilises Catholic imagery and theology
• Georges Bernanos – novelist, a devout Catholic; novels includeThe Diary of a Country Priest
• Leon Bloy – late-19th- and early-20th-century novelist
• Louis Gabriel Ambroise de Bonald – counter-revolutionary philosophical writer
• Jacques-Benigne Bossuet – 17th-century bishop, preacher and master of French prose; wrote famous funeral orations and doctrinal works
• Pierre Boulle – writer; novels includeThe Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) andPlanet of the Apes (1963)
• Paul Bourget – novelist
• Pierre Boutang
• Louis Bouyer - French Oratorian priest and theologian, former Lutheran minister, convert to Catholicism, a founder of the journalCommunio with Joseph Ratzinger and Hans Urs von Balthasar
• Pauline Cassin Caro (1828/34/35–1901), novelist
• Jean Pierre de Caussade – Jesuit and spiritual writer
• The Vicomte deChateaubriand – founder of Romanticism in French literature; returned to the Catholic faith of his 1790s boyhood; wroteapologetic for Christianity, "Génie du christianisme" ("The Genius of Christianity"), which contributed to a post-Revolutionary revival of Catholicism in France
• Paul Claudel – devout Catholic poet; a leading figure in French poetry of the early 20th century; author of verse dramas focusing on religious themes
• François Coppée
• Pierre Corneille – founder of French tragedy; Jesuit-educated; translatedThe Imitation of Christ,Thomas à Kempis, into French verse
• Léon Daudet
• René Descartes – one of the most famous philosophers in the world; dubbed the father of modern philosophy; much subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings, which are studied closely to this day; also a mathematician and a scientist.
• Pierre Duhem – late-19th-centuryphysicist,historian andphilosopher of physics
• SaintFrancis de Sales – Bishop of Geneva from 1602 to 1622; a Doctor of the Church; wrote classic devotional works, e.g.,Introduction à la vie dévote (Introduction to the Devout Life) andTraité de l' Amour de Dieu (Treatise on the Love of God); PopePius XI proclaimed him patron saint of writers and journalists
• François Fénelon – late-17th- and early-18th-century writer and archbishop; some of his writings were condemned asQuietist by PopeInnocent XII; he obediently submitted to the judgment of the Holy See
• Pauline Fréchette (1889–1943), poet, dramatist, journalist, nun
• Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange – neo-Thomist theologian
• Henri Ghéon – French poet and critic; his experiences as an army doctor during the First World War saw him regain his Catholic faith (as described in his work "L'homme né de la guerre", "The Man Born Out of the War"); from then on much of his work portrays episodes from the lives of the saints
• Étienne Gilson – philosophical and historical writer and leadingneo-Thomist
• René Girard – historian, literary critic and philosopher
• Julien Green – novelist and diarist; convert from Protestantism;A devout Catholic, most of his books focused on the ideas of faith and religion as well as hypocrisy.
• Pierre Helyot – Franciscan history writer
• Hergé – nom de plume of the writer and illustrator ofTintin, one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century, answer toLe Petit Vingtième request for a Catholic reporter that fought evil around the world
• Victor Hugo – French novelist and poet
• Joris-Karl Huysmans – originally adecadent novelist, his later novels,En Route (1895),La Cathédrale (1898) andL'Oblat (1903), trace his conversion to Roman Catholicism
• Max Jacob
• Francis Jammes – late-19th- and early-20th-century poet
• Pierre de Jarric – French missionary and author
• Marcel Jouhandeau

L–Z

• Brother Lawrence – 17th-century Carmelite lay brother; known for the spiritual classic "The Practice of the Presence of God"
• Frédéric Le Play
• Henri de Lubac – priest (later cardinal) and leading theologian
• Joseph de Maistre – late-18th- and early-19th-century writer and philosopher fromSavoy, one of the most influential intellectual opponents of the French Revolution and a firm defender of the authority of the Papacy
• Joseph Malègue – novelist
• Gabriel Marcel – convert; philosopher and playwright
• Jacques Maritain – convert; Catholic philosophical writer
• Henri Massis
• François Mauriac – devout Catholic novelist; a strong influence onGraham Greene, whose themes are sin and redemption; recipient of the 1952Nobel Prize in Literature
• SaintLouis de Montfort – priest; wroteThe True Devotion to Mary; Catholic saint
• Malika Oufkir – Moroccan writer imprisoned with her mother and siblings in a secret Saharan prison for 15 years; these years are recounted in her autobiography,La Prisonniere, later translated into English asStolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
• Blaise Pascal – polymath (physicist, mathematician and philosopher); made significant contributions to various fields including probability and mathematics; wrotePensées
• Charles Péguy – poet; long poems include "Mysteres de Charité de Jeanne d'Arc" ("Mysteries of the Charity of Joan of Arc") and "Le mystère des saints innocents" ("The Mystery of theHoly Innocents")
• Charles Perrault – wrote epic Christian poetry before establishing thefairy tale literary genre withTales of Mother Goose
• Jean Raspail – 20th-century French novelist; known forCamp of the Saints
• Pierre Reverdy – 20th-century French poet
• Arthur Rimbaud – 19th-century poet and confessional writing pioneer; author ofA Season in Hell; self-professed "voyant", or seer
• SaintTherese of Lisieux – 19th-century Carmelite nun and now a Doctor of the Church; autobiography,L'histoire d'un âme (The Story of a Soul), was a best-seller and remains a spiritual classic
• Gustave Thibon
• Jules Verne – science-fiction writer
• Louis Veuillot – 19th-century French Catholic journalist

German language

A–M

• Franz Xaver von Baader
• Hans Urs von Balthasar – theologian; wrote literary criticism and biographies of the saints
• Heinrich Böll – novelist
• Clemens Brentano – German poet and novelist of Italian origins; leading figure in the Romantic movement; later withdrew to a monastery and acted as secretary to the visionary nun BlessedAnne Catherine Emmerich
• Hermann Broch – convert; author of modernist novels,The Death of Virgil andThe Sleepwalkers
• Paul-Henri Campbell – German-American poet, essayist, theologian, and religious tattoo expert
• Heinrich Seuse Denifle – AustrianDominican friar; historian andpaleographer
• Alfred Döblin – novelist; wrote the novelBerlin Alexanderplatz before he converted to Catholicism in 1941
• Heimito von Doderer
• Annette von Droste-Hülshoff – 19th-century poet; strict Catholic; many of her poems are religious
• Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff – 19th-century poet and novelist
• Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz – 20th- to 21st-century philosopher, scholar
• Ida Friederike Görres – 20th-century writer
• Joseph Görres – late-18th- and early-19th-century journalist and writer
• Günter Grass
• Romano Guardini – Italian-born German theologian
• Theodor Haecker – translator and writer; convert; opponent of theNazis
• Karl Ludwig von Haller
• Dietrich von Hildebrand – philosopher and theologian (wrote in both German and English); convert
• Hugo von Hofmannsthal – late-19th- and early-20th-century Austrian poet and playwright; later plays revealed a growing interest in religious, and particularly Roman Catholic, themes
• Elisabeth Langgässer (1899–1950) – Catholic writer; the Nazis deemed her "too Jewish"; admired byPope Benedict XVI
• Gertrud von Le Fort – convert
• Alexander Lernet-Holenia
• Martin Mosebach – novelist, poet, playwright, and noted critic of the liturgical reforms which followedVatican II
• Adam Müller

N–Z

• Ludwig von Pastor – historian; wrote multi-volume history of the popes
• Josef Pieper – German Thomist philosopher
• Erich Maria Remarque
• Joseph Roth – convert
• Max Scheler
• Friedrich von Schlegel – convert
• Aloysius Schlör (1805–1852) – Austrian ascetic writer
• Carl Schmitt
• Angelus Silesius – 17th-century convert to Catholicism from Lutheranism; became a priest and wrote religious poems, some of which became famous as hymns in the German-speaking world; some of his poetry seems to lean towardspantheism orquietism, but his prose works were orthodox, and theCatholic Encyclopedia says he repudiated any unorthodox interpretation of those poems
• Robert Spaemann – philosopher
• Othmar Spann
• Friedrich von Spee – 17th-century Jesuit priest and author of religious poetry
• Adrienne von Speyr
• Adalbert Stifter
• CountFriedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg – late-18th- and early 19th-century poet; convert
• BlessedHenry Suso – 14th-century Dominican friar; devotional writer of the Middle Ages, including "theMinnesinger of Divine Love" in works such as hisLittle Book of Eternal Wisdom; his works contributed to the formation of German prose
• Karl Freiherr von Vogelsang
• Ernst Wiechert
• Josef Weinheber

Icelandic language

• Halldór Laxness – journalist, novelist, playwright, poet and short-story writer; recipient of the 1955Nobel Prize in Literature, pre-1927 works only
• Jón Sveinsson –Jesuit children's writer; lived in France after age 13, but wrote children's books inIcelandic

Irish language

• Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill (also known as Eileen O' Connell) – Irish noblewoman and poet; known for a lament on the death of her Catholic husband
• Aogán Ó Rathaille (also known as Egan O'Rahilly) –Irish Jacobite poet; wrote of a decline for Catholics in Ireland^[10]
• Patrick Pearse (also known as Pádraic or Pádraig Pearse) – Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist and political activist; one of the leaders of theEaster Rising in 1916; educated by theChristian Brothers; establishedSt. Enda's School; also wrote in English

Italian language

• Giuseppe Agnelli – born inNaples; known for his catechetical and devotional works
• Albert of Castile (c. 1460–1522) – Catholic priest and historian
• Ludovico Ariosto – poet; known for his romanceepic poemOrlando Furioso (1516)
• Riccardo Bacchelli
• Baldassare Castiglione – in 1521,Pope Leo X conceded him the tonsura (first sacerdotal ceremony)
• SaintCatherine of Siena –Doctor of the Church; wroteDialogue of Divine Providence
• Eugenio Corti
• Dante Alighieri (simply called Dante) – hisDivine Comedy is often considered the greatest Christian poem; PopeBenedict XV praised him in an encyclical, writing that of all Catholic literary geniuses "highest stands the name of Dante"^[13]
• Grazia Deledda – Italian novelist; recipient of 1926Nobel Prize in Literature
• Antonio Fogazzaro
• Giovannino Guareschi – wrote the "Don Camillo" series of stories about a village priest and his rivalry with the Communist mayor
• Alessandro Manzoni – wrote the novelI promessi sposi (The Betrothed) which reflects his Catholic faith; in his youth "he imbibed the anti-Catholic creed of Voltairianism", but after his marriage, under the influence of his wife, he "exchanged it for a fervent Catholicism"
• Giovanni Papini
• Francesco Petrarca
• Pope Pius II – in his younger days he had been apoet laureate and had written an erotic novel,Eurialus and Lucretia; later he wrote histories and epistles
• Clemente Rebora – poet andRosminian priest
• Torquato Tasso – 16th-century poet; died one day before being crowned by popeClement VIII aspoet laureate
• Giuseppe Ungaretti

Latin language

• Saint Ambrose – Bishop ofMilan; one of the Four Latin Church Fathers; notable for his influence onAugustine; promoter of antiphonal chant and for theAmbrosian Rite
• Augustine of Hippo – earliest theologian and philosopher of the Church still having wide influence today; Bishop of Hippo; one of the Four Church Fathers; known for his apologetic workConfessions
• Boethius – philosopher; known forThe Consolation of Philosophy
• Pope Gregory I – Pope; one of the Four Latin Church Fathers; born to a patrician family in Rome and became a monk; known today as being the first monk to become Pope and for traditionally being credited withGregorian chant; emphasized charity in Rome
• Saint Jerome – one of the Four Latin Church Fathers; known for translating theBible into Latin; this translation is known as theVulgate and became the founding source for Biblical subjects in the West
• Saint Thomas Aquinas – one of the greatest philosophers, known for hisSumma Theologica

Lithuanian language

• Maironis – Romantic poet and priest
• Vaižgantas – priest and an activist during the Lithuanian National Revival
• Antanas Strazdas – priest, writer, and poet; became a folklore hero because of his humble origins
• Motiejus Valančius – Catholic bishop of Samogitia, historian and one of the best known Lithuanian writers of the 19th century

Norwegian language

• Jon Fosse  – novelist, 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature recipient, and convert to Catholicism.
• Sigrid Undset – convert whose Medieval trilogyKristin Lavransdatter has received high praise in Catholic circles;^[14] recipient of 1926Nobel Prize in Literature

Polish language

• Jan Kochanowski – provost, regarded as the greatest Polish poet
• Pope John Paul II – wrote plays in his youth, later wrote poetry as well as, of course, philosophical works and devotional meditations
• Zofia Kossak-Szczucka – writer of historical novels; helped save Jews in occupied Poland duringWorld War II
• Ignacy Krasicki –Polish bishop
• Zygmunt Krasiński  – poet, one of the three greatest in Poland
• Czesław Miłosz – Polish poet, prose writer, translator and diplomatLithuania born^[15][16][17]
• Grażyna Miller – Polish poet and translator; translated the poemRoman Triptych (2003) byPope John Paul II from Polish into Italian
• Adam Naruszewicz –Jesuit poet
• Władysław Reymont – novelist; recipient of 1924Nobel Prize in Literature for his four-part novelChłopi (The Peasants)
• Henryk Sienkiewicz – novelist; recipient of 1905Nobel Prize in Literature; his novelQuo Vadis (1895) deals with the rise and persecution of Christianity in Rome
• Jan Twardowski – poet; became a priest in 1948 and aprovost in 1959

Portuguese language

• Mariana Alcoforado –Poor Clares member; considered by some to have written theLetters of a Portuguese Nun
• Francisco do Monte Alverne – Brazilian franciscan friar, theologian and preacher
• Gustavo Barroso – Brazilianintegralist writer, lawyer and politician
• Manuel Bernardes (seeManuel Bernades) – Portuguese priest and writer
• Pero Vaz de Caminha – Portuguese knight, writer and secretary, known for the official report of the discovery of Brazil
• Luís de Camões – Catholic; his poem is (among other things) a call to arms against the enemies of the Christian faith
• Lúcio Cardoso – Catholic writer, poet and playwright
• Miguel Esteves Cardoso – contemporary writer, critic and journalist
• Otto Maria Carpeaux – Austrian-born Brazilian journalist and literary historian and critic
• Olavo de Carvalho – Brazilian philosopher, journalist and essayist
• Gustavo Corção (seept:Gustavo Corção) – Brazilian Catholic writer
• Denis of Portugal – signed a favouring agreement with the pope and swore to protect the church's interests
• Santa Rita Durão – Luso-Brasilian Augustinian friar andNeoclassic poet
• Otávio de Faria – Brazilian novelist and journalist
• Orlando Fedeli – Brazilian Traditionalist Catholic historian, teacher and political activist
• Jackson de Figueiredo – Brazilian lawyer, journalist and essayist
• Alceu Amoroso Lima – Brazilian Catholic writer and activist
• Gregório de Matos – Colonial Brazil Catholic poet, satirist and lawyer
• Fábio de Melo – Contemporary Brazilian Catholic priest, writer and artist
• Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira – Brazilian Catholic professor, writer and founder of theTradition, Family, Property movement
• Murilo Mendes – Brazilian convert,Modernist poet andsurrealist forerunner
• Adélia Prado – Brazilian Catholic poet
• Paulo Ricardo – Contemporary Brazilian Catholic priest, writer and professor
• Nelson Rodrigues – Brazilian playwright and journalist
• Marcelo Rossi – Brazilian Catholic priest, artist and writer
• Plínio Salgado – Brazilian writer, journalist, politician and founder ofBrazilian Integralism
• Mário Ferreira dos Santos – Brazilian philosopher, translator andChristian anarchist thinker
• Arlindo Veiga dos Santos – Brazilian Monarchist intellectual and poet, founder ofPatrianovism
• Luís de Sousa – Portuguese monk and prose-writer
• Ariano Suassuna – Brazilian catholic playwright and writer, author of "Auto da Compadecida"
• Gil Vicente – Portuguese writer of the Renaissance
• António Vieira – Portuguese Jesuit priest, writer, preacher and orator, known for his sermons about Colonial Brazil's society

Russian language

• Regina Derieva – Russian poet; a convert to Catholicism
• Ivan Gagarin – Jesuit and writer
• Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin – Russian emigrant and Catholic priest; born in the Hague in theNetherlands; currently aServant of God
• Vyacheslav Ivanov – Russian poet, playwright, philosopher and translator; was associated with theRussian Symbolist movement; a convert to Catholicism
• Pyotr Kozlovsky – Russian man of letters and diplomat; a convert to Catholicism
• Vladimir Pecherin – Russian poet and Catholic priest; a convert to Catholicism

Slovenian language

• France Balantič  – poet
• France Bevk  – novelist
• Fran Saleški Finžgar – writer and priest
• Alojz Gradnik – poet
• Edvard Kocbek – poet, writer, essayist andChristian socialist
• Boris Pahor – writer andChristian humanist
• Ivan Pregelj – novelist
• Marjan Rožanc – writer, playwright and essayist
• Igor Škamperle – writer, essayist and sociologist
• Anton Martin Slomšek – poet and Roman Catholic bishop
• Jože Snoj – Catholic poet; was prohibited to publish his works during the Communist regime
• Karel Vladimir Truhlar – theologian,Jesuit priest, and mystical poet
• Josip Vandot – fiction writer
• Anton Vodnik – literary theorist and poet
• France Vodnik – essayist and poet
• Valentin Vodnik – 18th-century poet and Roman Catholic priest

Spanish language

• Juan de Albi – Carthusian writer (d. 1591)
• Jaime Balmes – Spanish Catholic priest; known for his political and philosophical writing
• Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
• Giannina Braschi
• Antonio Burgos
• Pedro Calderón de la Barca
• Ramón de Campoamor
• Leonardo Castellani – Jesuit priest
• Juan de Castellanos – Criollo poet, soldier and Catholic priest
• Francisca Josefa de la Concepción – Criollo mystic andPoor Clare nun
• Alonso Cueto
• Juan Donoso Cortés
• Gerardo Diego
• José María Gironella
• Nicolás Gómez Dávila
• Luis de Góngora – Spanish Baroque lyric poet and priest
• Baltasar Gracián – SpanishJesuit priest, baroque prose writer and philosopher
• Fernando de Herrera
• SaintJohn of the Cross – Spanish mystic,Discalced Carmelite friar and priest; major figure of the RomanCounter-Reformation; Roman Catholic saint
• Juana Inés de la Cruz – self-taught scholar and poet of theBaroque school;Hieronymite nun
• María Ignacia – ColombianPoor Clare nun, poet and writer
• Pedro Laín Entralgo
• Luis de León – Spanish lyric poet,Augustinian friar, theologian and academic; active during theSpanish Golden Age
• Osvaldo Lira – Chilean philosopher and theologian; priest of theCongregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary
• Lope de Vega – KOM
• Ramiro de Maeztu
• Juan Jose Marti
• Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo
• Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
• Leopoldo Panero
• José María Pemán
• José María de Pereda
• Juan Pérez de Montalbán – Spanish Catholic priest, dramatist, poet and novelist
• Dionisio Ridruejo
• Fernando Rielo
• Vicente Risco
• Pedro Sainz Rodríguez
• Luis Rosales
• Manuel Tamayo y Baus
• Maria Nestora Tellez – writer ofStaurofila; Mexican female Catholic teacher and writer^[18][19]
• Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
• SaintTeresa of Ávila – Spanish mystic,Carmelite nun and theologian; Roman Catholic saint; an author of theCounter Reformation
• Miguel de Unamuno
• Juan Vázquez de Mella
• Lizzie Velásquez
• Hugo Wast
• José Zorrilla
• Xavier Zubiri

Swedish language

• Anders Piltz – Swedish Benedictine and Latinist; scholar of Medieval Sweden
• Birgitta Trotzig – Swedish novelist; member of theSwedish Academy, chair number 6
• Gunnel Vallquist – Swedish writer; known for a translation of the seven-volume novelIn Search of Lost Time byMarcel Proust
• Torgny Lindgren – Swedish writer; member of theSwedish Academy, chair number 9

Welsh language

• Richard Gwyn –Elizabethan erabard and martyr who spread the teachings of theCounter-Reformation throughWelsh poetry
• Saunders Lewis – poet, dramatist, historian and leading figure in modernWelsh nationalism, a convert to Catholicism
• Dewi Nantbrân –Franciscan; wrote acatechism inWelsh
• DomWilliam Pugh – composed a Welsh poem in which loyalty to his king is combined with devotion to the Roman Catholic Church
• Gruffydd Robert – wrote in exile during theElizabethan era

Genre writing

Mystery

• Anthony Boucher – American science-fiction editor, mystery novelist and short- story writer; his science-fiction short story "The Quest for Saint Aquin" shows his strong commitment to the religion
• G. K. Chesterton – English lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist; wrote several books of short stories about a priest,Father Brown, who acts as a detective
• Antonia Fraser – English writer of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction; Roman Catholic (converted with her parents as a child); caused a public scandal in 1977 by leaving her Catholic husband forHarold Pinter
• Ronald Knox – English priest and theologian; wrote six mystery novels
• Ralph McInerny – American novelist; wrote over thirty books, including theFather Dowling mystery series; taught for over forty years at theUniversity of Notre Dame, where he was the director of the Jacques Maritain Center

Science fiction and fantasy

• Diana Gabaldon – American author of theOutlander series of books
• Michael F. Flynn – American science fiction novelist, author ofEifelheim
• R. A. Lafferty – American science-fiction and fantasy novelist; by many accounts a devout and conservative Catholic^{[20][21][22][23][24]}
• Murray Leinster – American science-fiction andalternate-history novelist
• Walter M. Miller, Jr. – American science-fiction novelist and short-story writer; convert, then ex-Catholic; known for the novelA Canticle for Leibowitz (1960) and other Catholic-themed works
• Michael D. O'Brien – Canadian Catholic novelist; works include the "Father Elijah" series^[25]
• Tim Powers – American science-fiction and fantasy novelist; self-avowed Catholic in interviews^[26][27]
• Fred Saberhagen – American science-fiction and fantasy novelist and short-story writer^[28]
• J. R. R. Tolkien – English writer, poet,philologist and university professor; worked on a translation of theBook of Job in the CatholicJerusalem Bible, and saw his novelThe Lord of the Rings as deeply informed by his Catholicism
• Gene Wolfe – American science fiction and fantasy writer; convert; a recent story of his inAsimov's Science Fiction magazine concerned a Catholicholy card
• John C. Wright – American science-fiction and fantasy novelist; convert; known for hisThe Golden Age trilogy novels and theOrphans of Chaos trilogy novels;Nebula Award finalist for his fantasy novelOrphans of Chaos –
• Rosamund Hodge – American novelist and short-story writer; works include "Cruel Beauty" and "Crimson Bound"

Screenwriters

• Frank Cottrell Boyce – the comedy-drama filmMillions (2004) is perhaps the most "Catholic" film he has written^[29]
• Robert Bresson – adapted the novelDiary of a Country Priest (1936), byGeorges Bernanos, to thefilm of the same name (1951); namesake of thePontifical Council for Culture's "Robert Bresson Prize in Film";^[30] influenced byJansenism^[31]
• Johnny Byrne – wrote episodes of the science-fiction television seriesSpace: 1999 (1975–1977) andDoctor Who^[32]
• Frank Capra
• Myles Connolly
• Joe Eszterhas
• Federico Fellini
• John Ford
• Mel Gibson
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Leo McCarey – wrote the drama filmThe Bells of St. Mary's (1945) and directed the musical comedy-drama filmGoing My Way (1944)
• Sean McNamara
• Paul Morrissey - best known of writer and director of films produced byAndy Warhol, includingFlesh (1968 film) andTrash (1970 film)
• Ermanno Olmi
• Eric Rohmer –French New Wave director and screenwriter and editor ofCahiers du Cinéma. His filmography shows an interest in Catholicism, and he personally attended Holy Mass every week.^[33]
• Martin Scorsese
• Luchino Visconti
• Raoul Walsh
• Franco Zeffirelli

Writers mistaken for Catholic

• Jeffrey Ford – raised Catholic, but abandoned the faith in strong terms^[34]
• David E. Kelley – raised a Protestant^[35]
• Andrzej Sapkowski – atheist and materialist, appeared in this list before^[36]

See also

Notes

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