Returning to the Lord novel he entered the Catholic Church

he entered the Catholic Church in 1939

are not altogether thrilled about this development in social conscience and journalistic vim and vigor

Perhaps more so than any of Mauriac's other works

measured study of the assumptions and arguments of religious thought from the nine­teenth and twentieth centuries—concepts and claims still active in the twenty-first century’s project of secularization

its challenges and its joys

Returning to the Lord novel he entered the Catholic ChurchBy Bede Jarrett, O. P. Returning to the Lord is a collection of more than three dozen sermons by the renowned Dominican preacher Bede Jarrett. In Book I, originally published in 1932 as No Abiding City, Jarrett shows the special importance of remembering we are pilgrims in the season of Lent. The Christian, he writes, is building up no permanent achievement; he takes a journey to life eternal. At the heart of Book II, originally published in 1945 as