From Church Life Journal, Amy Welborn on "The Limits of Willa Cather's Catholic Imagination"
If there is any book in which Cather comes close to this struggle, to this forging, it is in the novella My Mortal Enemy, her last book before she wrote Death Comes for the Archbishop. Here she edges right up to this precipice of confronting the individual’s interior journey from brokenness to a recognition of that brokenness to the possibility of wholeness. It is a painful journey Cather tells, with just a glimmer of hope won from suffering at the end, and the more I think about it, the more Death Comes for the Archbishop, as beautiful as it is, seems like a turn from those dangerous personal waters to the safe distance of history.
