A Kiss for the Leper Sheed and in 2012 Pope Benedict

and in 2012 Pope Benedict XVI declared him “Venerable

Midway through her poignant “Office for a Dead Child

) of the International Pontifical College Angelicum in Rome

The Theology of History in Saint Bonaventure is Joseph Ratzinger’s professorial dissertation

A Kiss for the Leper Sheed and in 2012 Pope BenedictBy Franois Mauriac With an Essay by Anthony Esolen Jean Ploueyre, as ingrate heir to an extensive French estate, is a maladroit, misshapen, misbegotten young man. The very antithesis of a hero, Jean stands very much in need of salvation. And yet, as Anthony Esolen writes in the essay accompanying the novel, The redeemers and the redeemed are not whom we expect. Against Nietzschean notions of power and sentimental dilutions of Christianity, Franois