A Rocking-Horse Catholic Sacraments pilgrimage and the sweet prospect

pilgrimage and the sweet prospect of the life that awaits beyond the River Jordan’s stormy banks

By Saint John Henry Newman

and those told and re-told tales of his life are shown as uncommon triumphs of justice and right in this rich telling by Henry Gilbert

he became best of friends with Romano Guardini

A Rocking-Horse Catholic Sacraments pilgrimage and the sweet prospectBy Caryll Houselander Caryll Houselander was nothing if not unconventional. In the estimation of Maisie Ward, her biographer and friend, it was this trait in particular, the lack of plaster in her sainthood, which so appealed to those who knew her or read her books. Published shortly after Houselanders death at the age of fifty three, A Rocking Horse Catholic is a charming, at times disarming, exercise in autobio graphy. With humility and humor,