Communism and the Conscience of the West revolves around the single, disconcerting idea that Communism, in both its ideological and practical forms, is on the conscience of the Western world. Because the West has broadly lost that spiritual sensibility which made it great, thus reducing both man and cosmos to wholly material and base realities, Fulton J. Sheen argues, there is nothing to prevent the dissolution of the old order into a new and terrifying totality. And thus appears Communism: the recalcitrant, neurotic child of a permissive, neglectful parent. 
Since it first appeared in 1948, during the initial frigid days of the Cold War, Communism and the Conscience of the West has proven to be a prophetic witness to the grave dangers of decadent, individualistic liberalism and atheistic, collectivist totalitarianism alike. While the Cold War has ended and Soviet Union passed away, these dangers have endured and even metastasized. For the basic struggle remains: the moral and spiritual struggle for the very soul of mankind.

Communism and the Conscience of the West

History

Sheen, Fulton J.

World

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The Eternal Galilean

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King Arthur's Knights

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GILBERT, HENRY

Historical

The Lost Princess and Other Tales: Collected Tales of George MacDonald, Vol. I

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MACDONALD, GEORGE

Classics

“The instrument of man’s sanctification,” remarks Edward Leen by way of introducing In the Likeness of Christ, “is man’s own human life.” For this reason, Leen makes the subject of this series of studies the human character of Jesus Christ, with the practical purpose of providing Christians a means of imitating and adhering to the “divine model of human perfection.” Tracking through the mysteries of the life of the Word made flesh—from his humble birth in Bethlehem, to his suffering and death on Calvary, to his glorious resurrection on Easter Sunday—In the Likeness of Christ finds that each individual mystery sheds new, supernal light on the person of the Savior. 
Like his spiritual mentor Dom Columba Marmion, Edward Leen made the central focus of his widely read spiritual writings the relationship between Christ and the soul of the individual. In the Likeness of Christ, steeped as it is in the saving harmonies of Sacred Scripture, facilitates that vital contact with the Divine Savior wherein the branch is grafted onto the Vine.

In the Likeness of Christ

Leen CSSp, Edward

Father Malachy Murdoch has wrought a miracle. One ordinary-seeming Saturday night in Edinburgh, the “Garden of Eden” dance-hall is doing a very brisk business, when the answer to Father Malachy’s prayer arrives all of a sudden: the building and its inhabitants are removed to the island of Bass Rock. The consequences of this miracle seemingly know no bounds. The media, the clergy, the scientists, the general public all converge in seeking an explanation, whether material or spiritual, as to how this event could have transpired. At the center of the controversy and chaos calmly stands Father Malachy, disdaining both the crass excesses of the world and the pusillanimous explications found even among Christians, and laying claim to the the simple saving grace of God for his wandering sheep.Brought, at long last, back into print, Father Malachy’s Miracle is just as clever, comedic, and downright enjoyable as the day it first unassumingly appeared as “a heavenly story with an earthly meaning.”

Father Malachy's Miracle

MARSHALL, Bruce

Poems

of the Cross, St. John

Poetry

The liturgy, in its essence, is a profoundly personal act; it is the supreme act of the worship, offered by the priest in persona Christi, on behalf of the Mystical Body of Christ, the Church. As such, it transcends mere ceremony, being rather a sacrifice of praise in the fullness of the term, an action in which the Church participates as a whole to the glory of God and the sanctification of souls. Describing and clarifying the nature of “liturgical piety” in all its richness and with all its implications over the course of nineteen cogent chapters, Louis Bouyer charts the course of the liturgy through the ages, detailing its intimate ties to the Jewish tradition, its development in the Patristic age, its roots in Sacred Scripture, and its role in the Christian Mystery as anchor for the entire sacramental order. 
For the purpose of achieving “a true rediscovery of the liturgy which will be a new upsurge of its eternal vitality,” Liturgical Piety remains a sure source of insight and inspiration, revealing as it does that “the liturgy shows the distinctive features of the Catholic tradition in its most solemn form.”

Liturgical Piety

Bouyer, Louis

“The story of innocent suffering,” in its author’s own words, The Dry Wood centers on the London community of Riverside, in mourning for the death of its parish priest, Fr. Malone. A child of the parish, Willie Jewell, is terribly ill, drawing nearer day by day to death’s door. The people of Riverside storm heaven for Fr. Malone to intercede with God and obtain a cure for this child who is beloved by one and all. As Willie and his family contend with illness and impending death, the drama of salvation unfolds: the suffering of one child as the means of redemption for the sinful and sorrowful in his midst. 
Poignant, poetic, and replete with fascinating characters, The Dry Woodbears, in the words of one critic, “a feeling for a truth which most novels never seek to reveal: a feeling for Eternal Truth wrapped in the clouts of Riverside.” In that quality lies the greatness of Houselander and her one and only novel.

The Dry Wood

Houselander, Caryll

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