Mysticism, Magic, and Monasteries Type:eBook took up arms against the

took up arms against the civil government—even to the regret and against the advice of many in the ecclesiastical hierarchy

In the midst of a growing totalitarianism hell-bent on diluting

and on the radical oppositions between Catholic social teaching and every current political movement

William and Barbara Moran Chair in Early Christian Theology and Interreligious Relations

Mysticism, Magic, and Monasteries Type:eBook took up arms against theIf the hierarchy spent only half the time on disseminating the mystical and liturgical tradition of the Church that it does on destroying our own liturgical inheritance, it could drag us out of the nihilism of the secular age in the flash of a moment. According to Sebastian Morello, the Church possesses the most potent resources for mystical transformation, with the event of the Incarnation and the outpouring of grace it entailed radically altering