Paperback: "Because the man of the world wants to change his place, his destiny, his idols, and to change them perpetually, the friend of God must remain and stay in the place where God has put him. Indeed, between the friends of God and the world there is an antithesis and a rupture. What the one chooses, the other rejects. Otherwise there would no longer be two camps, but only one: the world." - Père Jérôme, Écrits monastiques
In this fascinating autobiographical interview, one of the most prominent and outspoken Catholic Cardinals gives witness to his Christian faith and comments on many current controversial issues.
The mission of the Church, the joy of the gospel, the “heresy of activism”, and the definition of marriage are among the topics he discusses with wisdom and eloquence.
Robert Cardinal Sarah grew up in Guinea, West Africa. Inspired by the missionary priests who made great sacrifices to bring the Faith to their remote village, his parents became Catholics. Robert discerned a call to the priesthood and entered the seminary at a young age, but due to the oppression of the Church by the government of Guinea, he continued his education outside of his homeland. He studied in France and nearby Senegal. Later he obtained a licentiate in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, followed by a licentiate in Sacred Scripture at the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum of Jerusalem.
At the age of thirty-four he became the youngest Bishop in the Catholic Church when John Paul II appointed him the Archbishop of Conakry, Guinea, in 1979.
His predecessor had been imprisoned by the Communist government for several years, and when Archbishop Sarah was targeted for assassination John Paul II called him to Rome to be Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
God or Nothing (2015, Dieu ou rien: Entretien sur la foi) is translated from the French by Michael J Miller.
About the authors: Robert Cardinal Sarah was born in Guinea, West Africa. Made an Archbishop by Pope John Paul II and a Cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI, he was named the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments by Pope Francis in 2014. He is the author of The Cardinal Sarah Book Trilogy: God or Nothing (2015); The Power of Silence (2016); and The Day Is Now Far Spent (2019). He is also the author of From the Depths of Our Hearts: Priesthood, Celibacy and the Crisis of the Catholic Church (2020) in collaboration with Pope Benedict XVI; Couples, Awaken Your Love (2021); and Pour l'éternité: Méditations sur la figure du prêtre (2021, For Eternity: Meditations on the Figure of the Priest).
Nicolas Diat is a French journalist and author. His latest book is A Time to Die: Monks on the Threshold of Eternal Life. Nicolas Diat is a French journalist and author who has collaborated with Cardinal Robert Sarah on God or Nothing, The Power of Silence and The Day Is Now Far Spent.
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