“There is a special irony that this disappearance [of Catholic artists visibility despite Catholics constituting one-quarter of the US population] has occurred during a period when celebrating cultural diversity has become an explicit goal across the American arts. Some kinds of diversity are evidently more equal than others.”

—  Dana Gioia

Essays, Can Poetry Matter? (1991), The Catholic Writer Today (2013)

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