The Cross and the Crisis Spiritual Bernadette

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“invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals

a fruit of the Church’s teaching and tradition as she fulfills her divine mission to transmit God’s revelation to His people

Revealing the Church Father’s fundamental unity of mission—to encounter the Godhead revealed in Jesus Christ and yet hidden in the shadows of the infinite—Fathers of the Primitive Church is a faithful

The Cross and the Crisis Spiritual BernadetteBy Fulton J. Sheen The distress of modernity, contends Fulton J. Sheen in The Cross and the Crisis, is fundamentally moral and religious in nature. Men, as G. K. Chestertons famously remarked, invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back. The distress of modernity, argues Sheen, is the result of a fear ridden flight from the cross of Jesus Christ, a reckless