The Cross and the Crisis novel Monsignor Joseph Clifford Fenton (1906–1969)

Monsignor Joseph Clifford Fenton (1906–1969) was professor of fundamental and dogmatic theology at the Catholic University of America and

Sheen sees the perfect remedy for what ails the modern age: “Modern Idealism needs the complement of his realism

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The Cross and the Crisis novel Monsignor Joseph Clifford Fenton (1906–1969)By 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