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Athonite Fathers Of The 20th Century Volume 1 by Cell of the Resurrection, Mount Athos

Paperback: In the lives of twenty-four Athonite Fathers of the twentieth century the reader encounters heaven on earth, the Gospel in action and the continuation of the Incarnation. 

Following the Holy Fathers, these holy ascetics lead us on the Way and connect us to the clouds of witnesses gone before us. Their lives guide us on the path of repentance and their examples inspire us to divine ascent. 

As so many flowers beautifying the Garden of the Theotokos, the lives of these Hagiorite ascetics adorn the Church with their hesychastic way of life, ascetic struggles, patristic confession of faith, and heavenly visitations. 

Advanced and beginners, faithful and seekers, all alike will cling to these eyewitness accounts of contemporary angels in the flesh and men of heaven. 

This treasury of spiritual gems has been carefully gathered and guarded by Hagiorite desert fathers and now it is made available to you, the pious pilgrim on the path to paradise.

Athonite Fathers of the 20th Century (2022) is translated from the Greek text, From the Ascetic and Hesychastic Athonite Tradition. 

Additional volumes will be released soon.

Mount Athos is the site of an important centre of Eastern Orthodox monasticism in northeastern Greece.

Inner Silence A Difficult Achievement

Beasts Of A Little Land by Juhea Kim

Paperback: Beasts of a Little Land (2021) is longlisted for the 2022 HWA Debut Crown Award; finalist for the 2022 Balcones Fiction Prize; a Recommended Read by: The Today Show, The Washington Post, USA Today, GoodReads, BuzzFeed, LitHub, Fortune, The Chicago Review of Books, Entertainment Weekly, The Millions, Kirkus Reviews, BookRiot, Buzz Books, Vulture, Bustle, Good Morning America, Christian Science Monitor, PopSugar, The Oregonian, Globe & Mail, Seattle Public Library; a Best Book of 2021: Harper's Bazaar, Real Simple, Ms. Magazine, Portland Monthly; Amazon's Best Books of December 2021; December 2021 Indie Next List Pick; and December 2021 Library Reads Pick.

 

As the Korean independence movement gathers pace, two children meet on the streets of Seoul. Fate will bind them through decades of love and war. They just don't know it yet.

It is 1917, and Korea is under Japanese occupation. With the threat of famine looming, ten-year-old Jade is sold by her desperate family to Miss Silver's courtesan school in the bustling city of Pyongyang.

As the Japanese army tears through the country, she is forced to flee to the southern city of Seoul. Soon, her path crosses with that of an orphan named JungHo, a chance encounter that will lead to a life-changing friendship.

But when JungHo is pulled into the revolutionary fight for independence, Jade must decide between following her own ambitions and risking everything for the one she loves.

Sweeping through five decades of Korean history, Juhea Kim's sparkling debut is an intricately woven tale of love stretched to breaking point, and two people who refuse to let go.

About the author: Juhea Kim was born in Incheon, Korea, and moved to Portland, Oregon, at the age of nine. She is the founder and editor of Peaceful Dumpling, an online magazine covering sustainable lifestyle and ecological literature. She earned her BA in Art and Archaeology from Princeton University. Her writing has been published in Granta, Catapult, Joyland, Times Literary Supplement, Independent, Zyzzyva and elsewhere, and Beasts of a Little Life is her debut novel. After a decade in New York City, Kim now lives in Portland, Oregon.

Rating: 5/5

Personal Notes by Bernadette SOUBIROUS

Booklet: With the exception of the autobiographic narratives of the Apparitions, the small note book containing Bernadette's Personal Notes, is certainly the most precious treasure of Saint Bernadette kept in the archives of Saint Gildard's Convent in Nevers, France.

In this very modest note book, Saint Bernadette has written down:

1) Extracts from books that she had read, pious thoughts or prayers copied from holy pictures, snatches of hymns, etc; among which, sometimes, short, simple prayers to God, to Our Lady and to the Saints escaped from Bernadette's heart;

2) Notes taken down during a retreat given by a Jesuit, Father Secail, from 21 October to 30 October 1873. During that retreat, Bernadette made her confession to the chaplain of St Gildard's Convent, Father Douce, a Marist Priest, whose advice and lines of direction she asked for. She also jotted down her own answers to which she added her resolutions and personal prayers. All these form real confidences, revealing the secrets of her interior life;

3) A few outlines of meditations;

4) A very beautiful prayer to the Virgin Mary, in the form of a dialogue between the soul and Mary, which she copied from a picture;

5) Then follow notes taken down during the retreat given by a Jesuit, Father Candeloup, from 5 September to 14 September 1874, with the advice received from Father Douce, together with her own resolutions. These pages are especially enlightening;

6) Again, a selection of thoughts, some of which were copied from holy pictures;

7) Finally, on the last page, scribbled in pencil in a shaky handwriting, probably written on her sick bed, we read a very moving sentence on holiness and the Rule. To the note book dated 1873 and 1874 we add some notes written on note books or loose-leaf pages of the same size as Personal Notes. They will enable the reader to follow Bernadette further in the admirable progress of her soul, constantly moved during these years, to a purer love of Jesus Christ.

We have found the source of most of the copied notes. However, this takes nothing away from the originality and intimacy of these pages. Saint Bernadette chose these texts because they were what she preferred and she preferred them because, in fact, they corresponded to the depths of her own interior life.

To copy, for Bernadette, was to express her feelings and to bring to light her deepest and sometimes her most hidden desire. It was also a means of expressing beneath a borrowed veil, what she was too timid to write in her own simple words.

- André RAVIER, S J

Personal Notes (1873-75) was purchased at the Librairie Catholique Internationale in Lourdes, France, for a sum of €4.50.

Beneath The Mountain by Luca d'Andrea

Paperback: In Luca D’Andrea’s atmospheric and brilliant thriller, set in a small mountain community in the majestic Italian Dolomites, an outsider must uncover the truth about a triple murder that has gone unsolved for thirty years.

New York City native Jeremiah Salinger is one half of a hot-shot documentary-making team. He and his partner, Mike, made a reality show about roadies that skyrocketed them to fame. But now Salinger’s left that all behind, to move with his wife, Annelise, and young daughter, Clara, to the remote part of Italy where Annelise grew up - the Alto Adige.

Nestled in the Dolomites, this breathtaking, rural region that was once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire remains more Austro than Italian. Locals speak a strange, ancient dialect - Ladino - and root for Germany (against Italy) in the world cup. 

Annelise’s small town - Siebenhoch - is close-knit to say the least and does not take kindly to out-of-towners. When Salinger decides to make a documentary about the mountain rescue group, the mission goes horribly awry, leaving him the only survivor. He blames himself, and so - it seems - does everyone else in Siebenhoch. Spiraling into a deep depression, he begins having terrible, recurrent nightmares. Only his little girl Clara can put a smile on his face.

But when he takes Clara to the Bletterbach Gorge - a canyon rich in fossil remains - he accidentally overhears a conversation that gives his life renewed focus. In 1985, three students were murdered there, their bodies savaged, limbs severed and strewn by a killer who was never found. Although Salinger knows this is a tightlipped community, one where he is definitely persona non grata, he becomes obsessed with solving this mystery and is convinced it is all that can keep him sane. And as Salinger unearths the long kept secrets of this small town, one by one, the terrifying truth is eventually revealed about the horrifying crime that marked an entire village.

Completely engrossing and deeply atmospheric, Beneath The Mountain (2017) is a thriller par excellence. It is translated from the Italian by Howard Curtis.

About the author: Luca D’Andrea lives with his family in Bolzano, Italy, where he was born in 1979 and where he worked as a teacher for ten years. Beneath the Mountain (2017) is his first thriller and was the most talked-about and fastest-selling book at the London Book Fair in 2016. It sold in thirty countries before it was first published in Italy.

Rating: 5/5 

The Beast Of Bethulia Park by S P Caldwell

Paperback: When Ray Parker dies unexpectedly in Bethulia Park Hospital, his suspicious family launch a campaign for justice. They recruit the young and idealistic hospital chaplain Father Calvin Baines to find a beautiful nurse who might unmask the doctor they believe is guilty of murder. 

When Emerald Essien enters his life, the priest finds his high principles are put to the test in a way that drives him to the edge of despair as he is propelled into a dark world of sexual obsession, danger and death.

"The Beast of Bethulia Park is a gripping psychological novel with Catholic themes but is also a wonderful thriller in its own right. Caldwell is an exciting new voice with a journalist's eye for crime detail and medical research. The priest belongs in the top literary gallery of priest protagonists who are all too human and find themselves up against clerical authority. A major new talent has arrived." - William Cash, award-winning author; founder of The Mace, Spear's magazine and The Westminster Index; writer at The Times and the New Statesman; and Chairman at the Catholic Herald 

About the author: Simon Paul Caldwell was born in Liverpool in 1968 and trained as a journalist on local newspapers in Lancashire in the early 1990s. He joined the Catholic Herald as associate editor in 1999 and the Daily Mail in 2001, spending more than a decade on the foreign desk. He lives in Lancashire and continues to work as a freelance journalist and media consultant.

Rating: 3/5

An Old Lady Who Loves Reading

The Love For Christ That Prayer Brings To The Heart

Society Knows Exactly Who Is The Man And Who Is The Woman

See Each Other More

The Life And Prayers Of Saint Lucy of Syracuse by Wyatt North Publishing

Paperback: One part biography, one part prayer book, The Life and Prayers of Saint Lucy of Syracuse (2013) is an essential book for any Christian.

For a saint about whom so very little is really known, Saint Lucy (283 AD to 304 AD) has a surprisingly impressive religious pedigree. Her relics have traveled the world. Her cult extends across oceans, and every year, large numbers of Italian-Americans travel "back home" to Sicily, a land they have primarily known through an increasingly distant heritage, to participate in the great festival there in her honor.

She is the bringer of light and lucidity, things which are in fact her namesakes as Lucy, or Lucia as she was known in Latin, itself means 'light.' She is also the patron of the blind, and those suffering from ailments of the eye. Ailments of the throat are also one of her specialties. It would seem like Saint Lucy governs over seemingly small and unimportant aspects of life. Those who had not previously heard of her might expect her to be a small niche-saint.

Yet, there she is, the light that once spread across all of Europe, from Spain in the west to Turkey in the east, and from Sicily in the south to Sweden in the north. She was one of eleven female saints officially recognized in the Roman Catholic Mass as early as the year 600. 

She makes an appearance in some of the most famous written works of western civilization. She is honoured not only in the Catholic Church, but in the Orthodox Church, the Anglican Church, and even the Lutheran Church, which is noteworthy on its own on account of the Lutheran denial of saints. 

About the author: Starting with just one writer, Wyatt North Publishing, a boutique publishing company, has expanded to include writers from across the USA. Their writers include college professors, religious theologians and historians. Visit them at www.WyattNorth.com 

Marcus Sedgwick (1968-2022), British Writer, Illustrator And Musician

Unreported Truths About COVID-19 And Lockdowns: Combined Parts 1-3: Death Counts, Lockdowns, And Masks by Alex Berenson

Paperback: Former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson offers all a combined version of three booklets in the controversial and best-selling Unreported Truths about Covid series - at one low price.

Since the publication of the first booklet in June, Unreported Truths (2020) has offered an honest counterpart to over-the-top media coverage about the risks of the coronavirus and ways to stop it. Part 1 focused on the ways governments count and report Covid-19 deaths. Part 2 covered the history of lockdowns and the evidence that they work - or don't. And Part 3 gave the same treatment to masks and mask mandates.

All three booklets draw on primary sources like Centers for Disease Control reports, news articles, and scientific papers - and all three offer direct links to the material so that you the reader can judge it for yourself.

With a quarter-million copies sold, Unreported Truths has become an independent journalism phenomenon. And as the fight over our response to Covid drags on, knowing the facts is more important than ever! Now, for the first time, all three booklets are available in a single package. Whether you are wondering about the series, have read one booklet but are interested in the others, or simply want them together for convenience, the Combined Edition offers fresh flexibility.

With a new introduction!

About the author: Alex Berenson was born in New York in 1973 and grew up in Englewood, New Jersey. After graduating from Yale University in 1994 with degrees in history and economics, he joined the Denver Post as a reporter. In 1996, he became one of the first employees at TheStreet.com, the groundbreaking financial news Website.

In 1999, he joined The New York Times. At the Times, he covered everything from the drug industry to Hurricane Katrina; in 2003 and 2004, he served two stints as a correspondent in Iraq, an experience that led him to write The Faithful Spy, his debut novel, which won the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best First Novel. He left the Times in 2010 to devote himself to writing fiction. But conversations with his wife led him to begin researching the science around cannabis and mental illness, a project that became the book Tell Your Children, published in January 2019.

He has now written twelve John Wells novels and two non-fiction books, The Number: How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street and Corporate America (2003), Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness and Violence (2019) and Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives (2021). 

Alex lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife, Dr Jacqueline Berenson, a forensic psychiatrist, and their children.

Happiness No 1611

Sensate Age

American Mother: The True Story Of A Troubled Family, Motherhood, And The Cyanide Poisonings That Shook The World (True Crime) by Gregg Olsen

Paperback: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of If You Tell comes the absolutely unputdownable and chilling true-crime story of Stella Nickell, a mother and wife who did the unthinkable and the unforgiveable.

 

At 5.02 pm on 5 June 1986, an emergency call came into the local sheriff’s office in the small town of Auburn, Washington State. A distressed housewife, Stella Nickell, said her husband Bruce was having a seizure. Officers rushed to the Nickell’s mobile home, to find Stella standing frozen at the door. Bruce was on the floor fighting for his life.  

 

As Stella became the beneficiary of over $175,000 in a life insurance pay-out, forensics discovered that Bruce had consumed painkillers laced with cyanide.

 

A week later, fifteen-year-old Hayley was getting ready for another school day. Her mom, Sue, called out ‘I love you’ before heading into the bathroom and moments later collapsed on the floor. Sue never regained consciousness, and the autopsy revealed she had been poisoned by cyanide tainted headache pills. Just like Bruce.

 

While a daughter grieved the sudden and devastating loss of her mother, a young woman, Cindy, was thinking about her own mom Stella. She thought about the years of neglect and abuse, the tangled web of secrets Stella had shared with her, and Cindy contemplated turning her mom into the FBI.

 

Gripping and heart-breaking, Gregg Olsen uncovers the shocking true story of a troubled family. He delves into a complex mother-daughter relationship rooted in mistrust and deception, and the journey of the sweet curly-haired little girl from Oregon whose fierce ambition to live the American Dream led her to make the ultimate betrayal.    

 

Originally published as Bitter Almonds (1993, 2002), American Mother: The True Story Of A Troubled Family, Motherhood, And The Cyanide Poisonings That Shook The World (2022) is a revised and updated edition. All characters depicted in American Mother are real people. There are no composites. Some have passed away, a few are still living. This book was crafted through hundreds of hours of interviews that survive both in print and on film and thousands of pages of court records (federal and local). Circumstances described are true.

About the author: A #1 New York Times bestselling true-crime writer, Gregg Olsen is praised for his ability to create a detailed narrative that offers readers fascinating insights into the lives of real people and fictional characters caught in extraordinary circumstances. He has authored ten nonfiction books, over twenty novels, a novella, and a short story, which appeared in a collection edited by Lee Child.  In addition to television and radio appearances, he has been featured in Redbook, USA Today, People, Salon magazine, Seattle Times, Los Angeles Times and the New York Post.  He is a native of Seattle and currently lives in rural Washington state.   

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Greatest Gift

Archbishop Fulton J Sheen (1895-1979), American Bishop And Theologian Of The Catholic Church

You Can't Wait Until Your Last Breath

 

Hotel Portofino Volume I by J P O'Connell

Paperback: Hotel Portofino Volume I (2021) is a heady historical drama about a British family who open an upper-class hotel on the magical Italian Riviera during the ‘Roaring 20s’.

Hotel Portofino has been open for only a few weeks, but already the problems are mounting for its owner Bella Ainsworth. Her high-class guests are demanding and hard to please. And she’s being targeted by a scheming and corrupt local politician, who threatens to drag her into the red-hot cauldron of Mussolini’s Italy.

 

To make matters worse, her marriage is in trouble, and her children are still struggling to recover from the repercussions of the Great War. All eyes are on the arrival of a potential love match for her son Lucian, but events don’t go to plan, which will have far reaching consequences for the whole family.

 

Set in the breathtakingly beautiful Italian Riviera, Hotel Portofino Volume I (2021) is a story of personal awakening at a time of global upheaval and of the liberating influence of Italy’s enchanting culture, climate and cuisine on British ‘innocents abroad’, perfect for fans of Downton Abbey and The Crown.

About the author: J P O’Connell has worked as an editor and writer for a variety of newspapers and magazines including Time Out, the Guardian, The Times and the Daily Telegraph. J P has also written several books including a novel, a celebration of letter-writing, a spice encyclopaedia, and most recently an analysis of David Bowie’s favourite books and the ways they influenced his music. J P lives in South London.

Rating: 4/5

Lost Shepherd: How Pope Francis Is Misleading His Flock by Philip F Lawler

Hardback: Infallible, but wrong.

Faithful Catholics are beginning to realize it is not their imagination. Pope Francis has led them on a journey from joy to unease to alarm and even a sense of betrayal. As certain fundamental doctrines of morality come into question, it is impossible to pretend that he represents merely a change of papal style.

Assessing the confusion stirred up in this pontificate, one of America's most astute Vatican observers explains what is at stake, what is not at stake, and how loyal believers should respond.

The Roman pontiff should be a source of unity in the Church, but an autocratic style and a radical agenda have made Francis the most divisive pope in modern times. Although he initially charmed the world with his refreshingly unscripted comments and gestures of humility, it has become clear that this is a pope with "friends" and "enemies." He aggressively promotes the former - in the Vatican, the College of Cardinals and the world's major sees - while marginalising, humiliating and even insulting the latter.

Neglecting the reform of the dysfunctional Vatican bureaucracy and the resolution of the sex-abuse scandals, Francis has devoted himself to opening Communion to the divorced and remarried. Bishops, priests, and laymen dismayed by the resulting confusion in Catholic teaching wonder which doctrine will be up for grabs next.

Lost Shepherd: How Pope Francis Is Misleading His Flock (2018) sounds an alarm: the confusion is dangerous. But loyal Catholics will find this book profoundly encouraging. The Church's teaching is constant. If the bishop of Rome obscures the Faith, the other bishops must clarify it. For all his authority, the pope cannot change doctrine. Papal infallibility is an extremely narrowly drawn doctrine, but Christ's promise "I am with you always" is unconditional.

About the author: Philip F Lawler, the editor of Catholic World News, is one of America's most incisive Catholic journalists and commentators. A graduate of Harvard College, he has been the editor of Crisis magazine, the Boston Pilot, and Catholic World Report. He is the author of Faithful Departed: The Collapse of Boston's Catholic Culture (2008), a penetrating analysis of the scandals that brought the Church to its knees in America, and co-author of A Call to Serve: Pope Francis and the Catholic Future (2013). The father of seven and grandfather of twelve, Lawler lives in central Massachusetts with his wife, Leila, a popular Catholic blogger. 

Portuguese Irregular Verbs (Professor Dr von Igelfeld Series) by Alexander McCall Smith

Paperback: Welcome to the insane and rarified world of Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology. Von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he feels certain he is due - a quest which has the tendency to go hilariously astray.

In Portuguese Irregular Verbs (2003), Professor Dr von Igelfeld learns to play tennis, and forces a college chum to enter into a duel that results in a nipped nose. He also takes a field trip to Ireland where he becomes acquainted with the rich world of archaic Irishisms, and he develops an aching infatuation with a Dentist fatale. Along the way, he takes two ill-fated Italian sojourns, the first merely uncomfortable, the second definitely dangerous.

Portuguese Irregular Verbs is the first book in the humorous and hugely entertaining Professor von Igelfeld series.

About the author: Alexander McCall Smith, often referred to as ‘Sandy’, is one of the world’s most prolific and best-loved authors. His various series of books have been translated into forty-six languages and become bestsellers throughout the world. These include the highly successful The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, the popular 44 Scotland Street novels, the Isabel Dalhousie novels, the von Igelfeld series and the new Detective Varg novels. He also writes stand-alone novels, children's fiction and libretti for short operas.

Alexander has received numerous awards for his writing and holds thirteen honorary doctorates from universities in Europe and North America.  He is Professor Emeritus of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. In 2007, he received a CBE for services to literature and in 2011 was honoured by the President of Botswana for services through literature to the country.  In 2015, he received the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and in 2017, The National Arts Club (of America) Medal of Honour for Achievement in Literature.

Rating: 5/5

Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley

Hardback: When there is no choice, all you have left to do is walk.

Kiara Johnson does not know what it is to live as a normal seventeen-year-old. With her mother in a rehab facility and an older brother who devotes his time and money to a recording studio, she fends for herself - and for nine-year-old Trevor, whose own mother is prone to disappearing for days at a time.

As the landlord of their apartment block threatens to raise their rent, Kiara finds herself walking the streets after dark, determined to survive in a world that refuses to protect her. Then one night Kiara is picked up by Officers 601 and 190, and the gruesome deal she is offered in exchange for her freedom lands her at the centre of a media storm.

If she agrees to testify in a grand jury trial, she could help expose the sickening corruption of a police department. But honesty comes at a price - one that could leave her family vulnerable to their retaliation, and endanger everyone she loves.

Nightcrawling is an unforgettable debut novel about young people navigating the darkest corners of an adult world, told with a humanity that is at once agonising and utterly mesmerising.

Nightcrawling (2022) is longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022.

About the author: A New York Times Writer to Watch, Leila Mottley is an author native to Oakland, California, with an interest in reflecting on institutional and individual inequity, liberation, and joy through writing. Her debut novel, Nightcrawling, was selected as an Oprah’s Book Club pick. Leila has performed and run poetry workshops as the 2018 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate and her work has been published in Oprah Daily and The New York Times.

Rating: 2/5

Beethoven: His Spiritual Development by J W N Sullivan

Paperback: Too often the study of great composers is limited to either a musical analysis of their compositions, or biographical scrutiny of their personal lives. Yet, particularly in the case of the Romantic composers, the artistic and personal sides of their lives are not separate entities but instead are intertwined. 

J W N Sullivan understood this clearly, and his book Beethoven: His Spiritual Development (1927, 2020) illustrates this link in the life of Ludwig van Beethoven. 

Fiercely charismatic and passionate, Beethoven is an exemplar of the impulses that drove the Romantic era. Sullivan traces the developments in Beethoven’s personal life, his beliefs, his aspirations, showing how they are manifested in the various stages of his musical career. Through his music, the listener gains a glimpse of Beethoven’s successes and failures, from the triumphant heroism of his third and fourth symphonies to the delicate genius of his later string quartets. 

This classic work is a must-read for devotees of classical music and all those interested in exploring the connection between the art and the artist.

About the author: John William Navin Sullivan (1886–1937) was a popular science writer and literary journalist, and the author of a study of Beethoven. He wrote some of the earliest non-technical accounts of Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, and was known personally to many important writers in London in the 1920s, including Aldous Huxley, John Middleton Murry, Wyndham Lewis, Aleister Crowley and T S Eliot.

Their Own Company

Saint Isaac The Syrian (c613 to c700)

Confronting The Pope Of Suspicion: The Key To Church Reform (Special 2021 Edition) by John Gravino

Paperback: Pope emeritus Benedict was exactly right when he blamed the sexual abuse scandal of the Church on the sexual revolution. Priests and theologians embraced the psychological ideas behind the sexual revolution, but many of these ideas clashed with traditional theology. So theology was thrown out, and a new "I'm okay, you're okay" philosophy was what seminarians were taught in their religion classes. 

These new ideas rejected Christian morality in favour of a relativism that encouraged sexual indulgence and experimentation. Seminarians were no longer taught to be chaste and celibate because it was now believed that these ancient traditions were psychologically damaging. Sexual liberation promised greater happiness, freedom, and mental health according to the new psychology. 

But like the promises of a certain ancient serpent, the promises of humanistic psychology would prove to be empty and false. The new philosophy of freedom that promised so much in terms of personal growth and fulfilment took a very dark turn. And it led to one of the darkest chapters in Church history. 

In Confronting the Pope of Suspicion: The Key to Church Reform (Special 2021 Edition), John Gravino documents how the new ideas of humanistic psychology, far from leading to the promised land of self-actualization, drove humanity instead into the wasteland of criminal sexual abuse.

Is Pope Francis the shepherd to lead us out of the wasteland? 

Hardly. 

For he promotes the very heresies that brought us to this dark valley in the first place.

Confronting the Pope of Suspicion: The Key to Church Reform is dedicated to Our Lady of Paris. To the rebuilding of that glorious monument to her, a monument to the marriage of human soul and Holy Spirit, a monument to the Christian spirit of the medieval age, to the marriage of faith and reason. It is dedicated to the rebuilding of that temple and dedicated to the rebuilding of its spirit in our hearts.

About the author: John Gravino is the author of The Immoral Landscape of the New Atheism, which was the topic of a health and spirituality seminar at Duke Medical Schoo. He continues to explore the intersection of health and religion and the other big questions of life at his website, NewWalden.Org.

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