The Common Heart Charles de Foucauld The distress of modernity

The distress of modernity

Mother Mary Francis sets out to correct the record with the truth and beauty of the vocation to the contemplative life by toppling the “strange gods” that have assumed majesty and power in the post-modern age—“the convex god who pushes the world away

Thomas as one of the most significant thinkers in modern Western philosophy

perilous scope of his priestly duty

The Common Heart Charles de Foucauld The distress of modernityBy Paul Horgan Paul Horgan was very much a man of the American Southwest, living there most of his career and setting many of his works there. In those Southwestern spaces, he wrote, great as they are, a person stands in relief like an earth feature, small, perhaps, but strongly lighted and as strongly shadowed. Horgan was also very much a Catholic, and he saw and wrote about life according to the light which his religion granted him. These two powers