Greene has refuted the absurdity of evil with the paradox of the cross—the instrument of that mysterious Love which
eager to embrace its mission to bring the glad tidings of salvation to all men
Midway through her poignant “Office for a Dead Child
and the genesis of properly Christian literature
he received the Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie française
A Retreat for Beginners Saint Joseph Greene has refuted the absurdityBy Ronald Knox Monsignor Ronald Knox preached scores, if not hundreds, of retreats. Of these, A Retreat for Beginners is singular: for, in Knoxs own declaration, it is addressed not to a crowd, but to one particular soulto you. The point of a retreat is that God means to do something in and to the soul; God, in this time of quiet, intends to conduct a spring cleaning of sorts in the retreatants spiritual life, illuminating a particular fault,