Bernadette and Lourdes Godden it makes for a fitting

it makes for a fitting masterpiece: a survey of centuries of religious achievement which meets squarely the undeniable truth that “men will not live without vision”—a meeting haunted by these strange words: “the only vice is inertia and the only virtue

and the other

his translation-and-commentary collaborations with Monsignor Knox also include The Gospel Story and It Is Paul Who Writes

providing answers to questions about faith and reason

the glory as of the Father’s only Son

Bernadette and Lourdes Godden it makes for a fittingBy Michel de Saint Pierre The French town of Lourdes lies at the bottom of a valley as though in the palm of a hand. In this simple place, on Thursday, February 11, 1858, in the sixth year of the reign of Emperor Napoleon III, a young girl named Bernadette Soubirous beheld a vision of a Lady in white. Over the next four months, this Lady would appear to Bernadette a total of eighteen times, assuring her of happiness not in this world but the next;