Captive Flames Format:Paperback rather than the dawn of

rather than the dawn of the Renaissance

By Josef Pieper

They all feel dimly that they are the creatures of their deeds and have echoes in other destinies

Pope John XXIII convoked the Second Vatican Council

Yet when the plague strikes Italy

Captive Flames Format:Paperback rather than the dawn ofBy Ronald Knox The main theme of the twenty one panegyrics collected in Captive Flames, as Ronald Knox writes in his Dedication to Arnold Lunn, is something which does not alter with our shifting perspectives, does not grow old. The saints do not belong to a period. They are fixed stars, not subject to any law of impermanence. Illustrating this dauntless fixity of the Communion of Saints and their meritorious example to earthly wayfarers are sermons