Bernadette and Lourdes Godden providing answers to questions about

providing answers to questions about faith and reason

The remarkable legacy of Victor White

and equally witty and insightful reflections on “Going On Pilgrimage

it makes for a fitting masterpiece: a survey of centuries of religious achievement which meets squarely the undeniable truth that “men will not live without vision”—a meeting haunted by these strange words: “the only vice is inertia and the only virtue

Bernadette and Lourdes Godden providing answers to questions aboutBy Michel de Saint Pierre The French town of Lourdes lies at the bottom of a valley as though in the palm of a hand. In this simple place, on Thursday, February 11, 1858, in the sixth year of the reign of Emperor Napoleon III, a young girl named Bernadette Soubirous beheld a vision of a Lady in white. Over the next four months, this Lady would appear to Bernadette a total of eighteen times, assuring her of happiness not in this world but the next;