A Kiss for the Leper Sheed yet these masks only obscure

yet these masks only obscure the vacuity of ideology and its inability to save man from himself

patristic and classicist scholar Herbert Musurillo

“The redeemers and the redeemed are not whom we expect

the fourteen cycles and their accompanying individual poems of The Likeness of All Things are an occasion simply to appreciate the talent of Pope St

A Kiss for the Leper Sheed yet these masks only obscureBy Franois Mauriac With an Essay by Anthony Esolen Jean Ploueyre, as ingrate heir to an extensive French estate, is a maladroit, misshapen, misbegotten young man. The very antithesis of a hero, Jean stands very much in need of salvation. And yet, as Anthony Esolen writes in the essay accompanying the novel, The redeemers and the redeemed are not whom we expect. Against Nietzschean notions of power and sentimental dilutions of Christianity, Franois