Book Review: En Route by Joris-Karl Huysmans
“But it was fit that we should make merry and be glad, for this thy brother was dead and is come to life again; he was lost, and is found.” – Luke 15:32
Tag: Christendom
Book Review of A General History of the Christian Era: Vol. I The Papacy and The Empire by Fr. Antony Guggenberger, S.J.
“Let not the discourse of the ancients escape thee, for they have learned of their fathers: For of them thou shalt learn understanding, and to give an answer in time of need.”
– Ecclesiasticus 8:11-12
Book Review: My Way of Life by Fr. Walter Farrell, O.P., S.T.M. and Fr. Martin J. Healy, S.T.D.
“With his spirit at once humble and swift, his memory ready and tenacious, his life spotless throughout, a lover of truth for its own sake, richly endowed with human and divine science, like the sun he heated the world with the warmth of his virtues and filled it with the splendor of his teaching.”
– Leo XIII on St. Thomas Aquinas
Book Download: The Greek Fathers by Father Adrian Fortescue
What they defended was the Catholic faith that we profess. We, who are the heirs of so great a tradition, ought to know at least something about the story of the long chain that joins us back to the first Whitsunday.
Book Review: The Song of Roland
“No day will pass that I feel no pain for you.”
– Charlemagne
(Laisse 207. 2901)
Book Download: History of the German People at the Close of the Middle Ages by Fr. Johannes Janssen (Vol. I)
The wonderful development of spiritual and intellectual life that characterized this period was only possible in view of the fact that all minds were still influenced by the Church doctrine of ‘salvation by good works.’ This teaching resulted, on one hand, in innumerable charitable bequests, in the founding of hospitals, asylums, and orphanages, as well as in the building of churches and cathedrals adorned with all that was most beautiful in art; while it also prompted the establishment of higher and lower education institutions, and the liberal endowment of them.
Book Review: History of the German People at the Close of the Middle Ages by Fr. Johannes Janssen (Vol. I)
“It is an oft-repeated tale,
A century old and more,
Who ne’er in sorrow hath wept,
Never in love hath smiled.”
– A Medieval German poem
Book Review: Dante Alighieri: Citizen of Christendom by Fr. Gerald G. Walsh, S.J.
“For We admire in him not only supreme height of genius but also the immensity of the subject which holy religion put to his hand. If his genius was refined by meditation and long study of the great classics it was tempered even more gloriously, as We have said, by the writings of the Doctors and the Fathers which gave him the wings on which to rise to a higher atmosphere than that of restricted nature. And thus it comes that, though he is separated from us by centuries, he has still the freshness of a poet of our times: certainly more modern than some of those of recent days who have exhumed the Paganism banished forever by Christ’s triumph on the Cross.” – Pope Benedict XV