The Mystery of the Church Popes and the persistent temptation to

and the persistent temptation to despair

and searches for the spirit of the earth

” The Meaning of History is an engaging enlargement of mankind’s self-understanding vis-à-vis its bewilderingly complex past

Louis de Bonald

Bloy aided Jacques and Raïssa Maritain in the their conversion to Catholic faith

The Mystery of the Church Popes and the persistent temptation toBy Humbert Clerissac, O. P. Preface by Jacques Maritain The final writings of Humbert Clerissac, O. P., The Mystery of the Church offers spiritual nourishment by means of the beauty and glory of the Churchs manifold mysteries. As Jacques Maritain writes in the Preface, Clerissac asked of those who came to him to adhere fully to the mystery of the Church. This adherence, for the French Dominican, depended on the dynamic union of faith and reason,