Editor’s note: in this fascinating interview with Crisis Magazine, the acclaimed novelist Walker Percy discusses the vocations crisis, abortion, Vatican II, popes, and (of course) literature. The interview originally appeared in the July 1989 print edition of Crisis. It has been edited for brevity. CRISIS: There is tremendous intellectual opposition in the Church to Pope … Read more
The question, Why are you a Catholic?, arouses in me, I’ll admit, certain misgivings. One reason, the first that comes to mind, is that the prospect of giving one’s “testament,” saying it straight out, puts me in mind of an old radio program on which people, mostly show business types as I recall, uttered their … Read more
I am probably not the likeliest contributor to a symposium on the vocation of the layman since I don’t usually do the sort of things better Catholics do, like being active in the “faith community,” the “parish family,” and suchlike. Nor do I find myself caught up in any of the partisan movements which, to … Read more