The Hostage Saints These essays present a remarkably

These essays present a remarkably lucid synthesis of Thomistic philosophy and theology in service of a timely Christian engagement with evolutionary science

crowned with a subtly brilliant conclusion

intelligently executed

I found also an altar bearing the inscription

The Hostage Saints These essays present a remarkablyBy Paul Claudel The year is 1812: the army of Napoleon Bonaparte has initiated its fatal invasion of Russia while Pope Pius VII languishes as a political prisoner of the Emperor. When George de Cofontaine et Dormant, Lord Lieutenant of the King, kidnaps the Pope, he sets into motion a series of events whose outcome could determine the fate of the Church and world alike. Bringing his papal hostage to the ancestral Cofontaine home, George draws his