The Church of the Revolutionary Age: A Fight for God, Volume 2

By Henri Daniel-Rops The Church of the Revolutionary Age: A Fight for God is the ninth install­ment in Henri Daniel-Rops’ outstanding History of the Church of Christ. This volume surveys (1) the crisis of Modernism, “the crossroad of all heresies”; (2) the outbreak of the Great War and Pope Benedict XV’s fight against the flames which laid unprecedented spiritual and material waste; (3) the continued success of Catholic social teaching and the rise of Catholic Action in the years after World War I, crowned by Pius XI’s Quadragesimo anno; (4) the papacy of Pius XI, “defensor fidei et hominis,” who rose to the unique and terrible challenge of confronting Communism, Facism, and Nazism; (5) the Church’s missionary work in the Americas, the East, and Africa, with portraits of the exemplary Damien of Molokai and Charles de Foucauld; and (6) the story of a soul, Thérèse of Lisieux, le petit modèle for the soldiers of Christ to fight the good fight.  Would the world, by changing its foundatio