Things As They Are spiritual and a sermon for Easter

and a sermon for Easter Sunday with its glorious closing exclamation of hope: “The life he brought us shall never die

Moloney writes

giants and trolls

at which the Church yet speaks the last word—above the indignity of antipopes and the putrefying horror of the Black Death rises another glorious witness to the living Word: Dante Aligheri and the Divine Comedy

An astute inquiry into the material conditions of Europe in the Middle Ages

Things As They Are spiritual and a sermon for EasterBy Paul Horgan In early twentieth century New York, a young boy enjoys a happy, ordinary childhood. Then, one by one, Richard sees his childhood securities crumble before the pitiless facts of a fallen world: the wanton cruelty of other children, the inconstancy of the grown ups and inscrutability of their world, the overwhelming otherness of God, and the seemingly indomitable capacity in himself for sin. Things As They Are draws its thematic power