April is National Poetry Month. Here are a few famous authors that you may not have known were also Catholic. J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, was also a poet and devout Catholic. Dante Alighieri, author of The Divine Comedy (including the famous work “The Inferno”) was Catholic. Even William Shakespeare, famous poet and playwright, was thought to be a secret Catholic, but we may never know for sure. For more Catholic poets, a simple Google search can yield many results. Happy reading!