The Hostage Saints whose wisdom “is running on

whose wisdom “is running on the highways of the world before the footsteps of God

intelligently executed

These essays present a remarkably lucid synthesis of Thomistic philosophy and theology in service of a timely Christian engagement with evolutionary science

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The Hostage Saints whose wisdom “is running onBy Paul Claudel The year is 1812: the army of Napoleon Bonaparte has initiated its fatal invasion of Russia while Pope Pius VII languishes as a political prisoner of the Emperor. When George de Cofontaine et Dormant, Lord Lieutenant of the King, kidnaps the Pope, he sets into motion a series of events whose outcome could determine the fate of the Church and world alike. Bringing his papal hostage to the ancestral Cofontaine home, George draws his