Things As They Are spiritual Liberty: The Last Essays

Liberty: The Last Essays

ready to take every opening

( Henri-Daniel Rops)

at which the Church yet speaks the last word—above the indignity of antipopes and the putrefying horror of the Black Death rises another glorious witness to the living Word: Dante Aligheri and the Divine Comedy

has run away

Things As They Are spiritual Liberty: The Last EssaysBy Paul Horgan In early twentieth century New York, a young boy enjoys a happy, ordinary childhood. Then, one by one, Richard sees his childhood securities crumble before the pitiless facts of a fallen world: the wanton cruelty of other children, the inconstancy of the grown ups and inscrutability of their world, the overwhelming otherness of God, and the seemingly indomitable capacity in himself for sin. Things As They Are draws its thematic power