Survivals and New Arrivals: The Old and New Enemies of the Catholic ChurchHilaire Belloc, with his unmatched clarity and Catholic conviction, delivers a prophetic survey of the forces that have assailed the Church in every age. In these pages, he exposes the "survivals" ancient errors and heresies that linger like specters, and identifies the "new arrivals," the modern ideologies that promise freedom yet enslave souls and unravel the common good. From the shallow literalism of anti sacramental sects to the creeping
we too shall escape those wretched Infernal cloisters
Society is thusly reduced to a bifurcation in which the temporal order is autonomous
Whether used during Adoration or in quiet moments of reflection
The author relies on early testimony and Redemptorist sources
The author refers to him as “Father” or “Blessed
recounts the trials of the Franciscan missionaries who
and missionary discipline are treated with the respect due to a man now canonized a saint
towering figures of Catholic political thought confront the spiritual and political collapse of modern liberal society
his daily duties
One of their first halting-places in Gaul was the great monastery of Lerins
Patrick had once stayed for nine years
and the Kingship of Christ gathers Father Cyril Charles Martindale’s classic studies of Saint Ignatius of Loyola and Saint Francis Xavier into a single volume devoted to the spiritual origins and global mission of the Society of Jesus
