{"title":"Cluny Media","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"book-blessed-virgin-vol1-cluny","title":"The Book of the Blessed Virgin, Volume 1: Mother of God","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaperback, 264 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eFew men had as much an influence upon the leading lights of twentieth-century Catholicism as did F. J. Sheed. Helmsman of Sheed \u0026amp; Ward, “the most influential Catholic publishers in the English-speaking world,” Sheed was friend or publisher (or often both) to G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, Ronald Knox and Caryll Houselander, Evelyn Waugh and Christopher Dawson, and many others. Having this singular grace of familiarity with Catholic letters, in 1950 Sheed asked of himself: “Each of [our] books told some part of what is to be known about Our Lady extraordinarily well; if no one of them covered everything, among them they covered a great deal. How much did they cover?” The answer to that question:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mary Book\u003c\/i\u003e—represented after more than seventy years (in two volumes) as\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Book of the Blessed Virgin\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe angel said to her, Mary, do not be afraid; thou hast found favour in the\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003esight of God. And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and shalt\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ebear a son…and men will know him for the Son of the most High.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(L\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003euke 1:30–32)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eThis volume presents the first two parts of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mary Book\u003c\/i\u003e: “Anticipation” and “From the Annunciation to the Assumption.” With selections from Knox and Houselander, Dietrich von Hildebrand and Charles Journet, Vincent McNabb and Sigrid Undset (among others), the readings in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Book of the Blessed Virgin: Mother of God\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ecombine to offer a beautiful portrait of Our Lady as\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003esancta Maria, Mater Dei\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52185741689113,"sku":"BBV-CM\/VOL1","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/0989\/5705\/files\/book_of_bl_virgin_1.jpg?v=1778044343"},{"product_id":"book-blessed-virgin-vol2-cluny","title":"The Book of the Blessed Virgin, Volume 2: Mother of Mercy","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ePaperback, 266 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eFew men had as much an influence upon the leading lights of twentieth-century Catholicism as did F. J. Sheed. Helmsman of Sheed \u0026amp; Ward, “the most influential Catholic publishers in the English-speaking world,” Sheed was friend or publisher (or often both) to G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, Ronald Knox and Caryll Houselander, Evelyn Waugh and Christopher Dawson, and many others. Having this singular grace of familiarity with Catholic letters, in 1950 Sheed asked of himself: “Each of [our] books told some part of what is to be known about Our Lady extraordinarily well; if no one of them covered everything, among them they covered a great deal. How much did they cover?” The answer to that question:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mary Book\u003c\/i\u003e—represented after more than seventy years (in two volumes) as\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Book of the Blessed Virgin\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd Jesus, seeing his mother there, and the disciple, too, whom he loved, standing by, said to his mother: Woman, this is thy son. Then he said to the disciple: This is\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ethy mother. And from that hour the disciple took her into his own keeping.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e(John 19:26–27)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThis volume presents the last part of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mary Book\u003c\/i\u003e, “All Generations Call Her Blessed,” more than three dozen reflections on the role of the Mother of God who is also merciful Mother of all the living. With readings from Belloc and Chesterton, Houselander and Gerard Manley Hopkins, Maisie Ward and Walter Farrell, O.P. (among others),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Book of the Blessed Virgin: Mother of Mercy\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eoffers a graceful portrait of Our Lady as\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMater misericordiae\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52185742246169,"sku":"BBV-CM\/VOL2","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/0989\/5705\/files\/book_of_bl_virgin_2.jpg?v=1778044283"},{"product_id":"crisis-in-christendom-cluny","title":"The Crisis in Christendom","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ePaperback, 190 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWorld War II\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003evisited a judgment upon Christendom. In January 1943, thirteen months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the United States’ entry into the global conflict, Fulton J. Sheen addressed the nation: “This war is a crisis.…\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrisis\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eis taken from a Greek word which means judgment; and that is just what this war is—a judgment of God.” In these seventeen addresses, broadcast on January 3 to April 25, 1943, Sheen explains this judgment and its implications for the peoples of the world, believers and non-believers alike. As the war rages on, three ideologies contend for mastery: anti-Christianity in the forms of Nazism, fascism, communism, and imperialism, and non-Christianity in the form of Western secular liberalism, pitted against the Christian order with its basic principle that man is a creature made in the image and likeness of God.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eLike its predecessor collection,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWar and Guilt\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Crisis in Christendom\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eis an unflinching confrontation with the powers of darkness as well as a stern yet inspiring challenge to Christians to heed both the chastisement and the call of God: to put the sword back into its place and be not troubled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eYou shall hear of wars and rumours of wars. 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Its premises and its implications extend practically to the outermost limits of human thought, encompassing metaphysics, epistemology, anthropology, cosmology, and even aesthetics, and encroaching upon the domain of divinity. “\u003ci\u003eAll men by nature desire to know.\u003c\/i\u003e” But what do, and can, they know? How do they know? How do they share it? How do they discern truth from falsehood? This is the problem of human knowledge; its solution serves as the key to any philosophical synthesis.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Concept in Thomism\u003c\/i\u003e, originally published in 1952, gives the Thomistic account of knowledge and helpfully describes the Thomistic response to the various modern epistemological variations.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThat which the intellect first conceives as most known,\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eand into which it resolves all other concepts, is being.\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(St. thomas Aquinas,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eDe veritate\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eJohn Frederick Peifer anchors his study in Aquinas’s own writings as well as those of such figures from the Commentatorial Tradition as Thomas de Vio Cajetan and John of St. Thomas. Describing the impetus for his work, Peifer cites Pope Pius XII: the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas “safeguards the genuine validity of human knowledge, the unshakeable metaphysical principles of sufficient reason, causality, and finality, and finally the mind’s ability to attain certain and unchangeable truth.” The eighth volume in The Thomist Tradition Series,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Concept in Thomism\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eshows that the door of human thought, far being from closed on itself, in fact opens upon the whole of reality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52185743819033,"sku":"CONTHOM-CM","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/0989\/5705\/files\/7173jNB5DgL._SL1500.jpg?v=1775018307"},{"product_id":"god-intel-mod-philosophy-cluny","title":"God and Intelligence in Modern Philosophy","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ePaperback, 320 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eGod and Intelligence in Modern Philosophy,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ethe first of the sixty-six books that Fulton J. Sheen wrote over the course of his storied career, is an extraordinary effort to consider the nature of God and how we can know Him. Sheen sets out, not to dwell in the past and delight in its wisdom, but to discover, in the light of the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, effective solutions to modern problems of philosophy and theology. In the thought of the Angelic Doctor, Sheen sees the perfect remedy for what ails the modern age: “Modern Idealism needs the complement of his realism; empiricism needs his transcendental principles; philosophical biologism his metaphysics; sociological morality his ethics; sentimentalism his theory of the intelligence; and the world needs the God he knew and loved and adored.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eFirst published in 1925, with an introduction by the one and only G. K. 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Articulating the hierarchy of nature and knowledge, Sheen repudiates key elements of the New Atheism movement and offers an invitation to think, to seek, and to study what is true, one, and good—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ereality\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52185744212249,"sku":"PHILSCI-CM","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/0989\/5705\/files\/71lN1E7_GL._SL1500.jpg?v=1775014247"},{"product_id":"philosophy-of-religion-cluny","title":"Philosophy of Religion","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaperback, 466 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor his first mission as a priest,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eFulton J. Sheen sought wisdom. Ordained a priest in 1919, he studied philosophy—first at the Catholic University of America and then at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, earning his doctorate with distinction in 1923. These studies, steeped in the wisdom of the Angelic Doctor, would serve him in great stead over the course of his priestly life, informing his preaching, teaching, and writing with the power of distinction and force of clarity. In\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilosophy of Religion\u003c\/i\u003e, Sheen recalls the philosophical world to the value of reason and its relationship with religion. With assurance and conviction, Sheen examines modernity’s problems with reason and religion: first, the history of the abandonment of reason and the final descent into irrationalism; second, a recall to the right use of reason in discovering the existence and nature of God; third, a study of the impact of the physical and historical sciences on religion; and fourth, the value of the new approach to religion from man instead of nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eFirst published in 1948, twenty-five years after Sheen’s reception of the Catholic Uni­versity of Louvain’s prestigious Cardinal Mercier Prize for International Philosophy,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilosophy of Religion: The Impact of Modern Knowledge on Religion\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eis a competent affirmation of the validity and transcendent power of reason not only to know the truth but also to believe and love its very Source.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eReligion would seem to take its name from reading over those things which\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ebelong to Divine worship because we ought frequently to ponder over such\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ethings in our hearts, according to Proverbs, “In all thy ways think on Him.”\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(Saint Thomas Aquinas)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52185744245017,"sku":"PR-CM","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/0989\/5705\/files\/71GelURRqNL._SL1500__1.jpg?v=1775015164"},{"product_id":"the-belief-of-catholics-cluny","title":"The Belief of Catholics","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaperback, 262 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e“\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnd people go round saying,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e‘At least Catholics know what they believe,\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e” sarcastically remarks Charles Ryder of Evelyn Waugh’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrideshead Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e. With\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Belief of Catholics\u003c\/i\u003e, Ronald Knox offers a stirring\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ecredo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewhich puts the sarcasm of his friend and biographer Waugh’s protagonist in its proper place. Building up the vast, intricate structure of Catholic doctrine from its foundation to its summit, Knox begins with a scrutiny of modernity’s ill-founded aversion to religion and then proceeds, in measured, memorable style, to address those “essential and unavoidable” questions to which religion must provide the answers. Does God exist? Does he reveal himself to humanity? Is a loving relationship between God and human beings a myth or a reality? Is the Catholic Church what it claims to be: the means and end of salvation as promised by Jesus Christ?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe ethos of Catholics is not futuristic; they live, not on dreams, but on convictions.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Ronald Knox)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eCelebrated since its first appearance in 1927 as a classic in Catholic apologetics,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Belief of Catholics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eoffers a clear, stimulating, and persuasive presentation of orthodoxy. As a challenge to skeptics and a restorative for believers, Knox’s work is the genuine article: the expression of the faith, freely received as it was freely given, ringing with the all the courage of one man’s unflagging conviction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52185744474393,"sku":"TBOC-CM","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/0989\/5705\/files\/71Umgl_S3-L._SL1500.jpg?v=1775014134"},{"product_id":"cross-and-the-crisis-cluny","title":"The Cross \u0026 the Crisis","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaperback, 228 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Cross and the Crisis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003econtends that the distress of modernity is fundamentally moral and religious in nature. Men, runs Chesterton’s famous remark, “invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.” The distress of modernity, argues Fulton J. Sheen, is the result of a fear-ridden flight from the cross of Jesus Christ, a reckless reluctance to look back to the salvific sacrifice on Calvary. The consequences of that choice envelop every area of human life. By use of the Parable of the Prodigal Son, Sheen points to the one cure for the modern distress: the grace flowing from the side of the crucified Christ.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52185744507161,"sku":"TCATC-CM","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/0989\/5705\/files\/61uvOokHAhL._SL1500.jpg?v=1775013968"},{"product_id":"the-christ-sheen-cluny","title":"The Christ","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaperback, 272 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eEvangelization is an exclusive mission,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003esingle-minded in purpose. Its thought, as the first missionary, St. Paul the Apostle, describes it, is of nothing but bringing knowledge of “Jesus Christ, and of him as crucified.” In these thirty-two addresses, broadcast for The Catholic Hour radio program over the years 1931–1932 and 1934–1935,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eFulton J. Sheen takes the page straight from St. Paul’s book, preaching Christ and him crucified and seeking to illumine souls concerning the incarnate Son of God and his Church. The same yesterday, today, and forever, Jesus Christ offers to a novelty-obsessed world the gifts of true newness, true renewal, and true refreshment, to be enjoyed in the loving, steadfast shelter of his Church.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eI have only one purpose in mind: to teach the hungry hearts and souls of our land that Christ is the life of their souls, their only solace and their only peace.\u003c\/em\u003e” (Fulton J. Sheen)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eA prime example of excellent preaching,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Christ\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecombines addresses originally published in the volumes\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eManifestations of Christ\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(1934) and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Fullness of Christ\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(1935). Delivered with Sheen’s typical consummate clarity and inspirational power,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Christ\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eshines steady light on the path toward better living of that life which is divine, a better understanding of that truth which is the Word, and a deeper love of that love which is the Spirit of God.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52185744539929,"sku":"TCFS-CM","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/0989\/5705\/files\/71nEXbwe84L._SL1500.jpg?v=1775014048"},{"product_id":"mass-in-slow-motion-pb-cluny","title":"The Mass in Slow Motion (paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e160 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe first\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e of Ronald Knox’s three “Slow Motion” collections, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Mass in Slow Motion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e comprises fourteen sermons preached during World War II to the students of the Assumption Sisters at Aldenham Park. Modest yet arresting in style, Knox explains the Mass from the opening psalm to the solemn words of conclusion: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIte missa est\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. While the liturgy Knox contemplates is that of the Tridentine Rite, the abundant fruits of his contemplation can be easily translated to the Ordinary Form of the present day. Indeed, their primary impetus is the powerful portrayal of the continuous action of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, in which formula yields to mystery and man participates in his own salvation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlong with its “Slow Motion” companions, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Mass in Slow Motion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e proved the most popular of Knox’s writings. Evelyn Waugh called it “the ideal present for a convert of any age or intellectual equipment.” More than seventy years since it first appeared in print, the truth of these words holds fast: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Mass in Slow Motion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is sure to assist any Catholic—let alone any convert—to more worthily and wisely go up to the altar of the Lord.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52185744605465,"sku":"TMiSM-PB-CM","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/0989\/5705\/files\/81NjSE9mD4L._SL1500.jpg?v=1775012921"},{"product_id":"three-to-get-married-cluny","title":"Three to Get Married (Cluny Media)","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaperback, 290 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Willed by God in the very act of creation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e, marriage and the family are interiorly ordained to fulfillment in Christ…” Thirty years before these words appeared in Pope St. John Paul II’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFamiliaris consortio\u003c\/i\u003e, Fulton J. 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Now they love\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eeach other not as they dreamed they would, but as God dreamed they would. \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003cspan\u003eFulton J. 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Before forces are mustered, weapons amassed, or battlelines drawn, the conflict has already arisen; the material and physical fighting and destruction which follow are but the extension of this initial, spiritual rebellion. “Man revolting against God,” declares Fulton J. Sheen, “is the miniature of the war of man revolting against his fellowman.” In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWhence Come Wars\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Sheen bluntly reckons with both causes of war and what can constrain humanity from waging it. Neither ideology, nor economics, nor politics, compel one nation to fight against another, but rather the fruit of original sin—mankind’s fall from grace—sets brother against brother in warfare’s duel of death. The antidote to this poison, the cessation of conflict, can be found only in God: without the return to God and the rebirth of the spirit of prayer, mankind will not know peace.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOriginally published in 1940, as the beginnings of World War II wreaked havoc across the globe, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWhence Come Wars\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eexamines bluntly and clearly the reasons for war, whether it can be waged justly or unjustly, and what are the proper remedies for the wounds which it inevitably inflicts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52185744671001,"sku":"WCW-CM","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/0989\/5705\/files\/71fk8pdsSvL._SL1500.jpg?v=1775012812"},{"product_id":"knox-comment-new-test","title":"A Commentary on the New Testament Vol 1: The Four Gospels (Msg. 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Intended for a lay readership, rather than scholarly, Knox’s work aims to resolve, at least in part, those difficulties of the New Testament for those who “want to read the Bible for themselves without shirking the difficulties.”\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eIn this first volume,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Four Gospels\u003c\/i\u003e, Knox examines every sentence in the back­ground of the whole Gospel narrative, seeking to clarify the meaning of the exact words employed by the evangelists, what they would have meant to the original audience, and what they imply given the entirety of revelation. The result is a profound aid to appreciating the mysterious riches of wisdom and knowledge contained in the Gospels, with Knox like the rich man described in Saint Matthew’s account, “who knows how to bring both new and old things out of his treasure house.”\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe gospel is not a thing of man’s dictation.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e(The Letter to the Galatians)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52343346954521,"sku":"ACNT","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/0989\/5705\/files\/commentarynewtestament1.jpg?v=1778045054"},{"product_id":"know-comment-vol-two","title":"A Commentary on the New Testament Vol II: The Acts of the Apostles \u0026 Saint Paul's Letters to the Churches - Msg. 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Intended for a lay readership, rather than scholarly, Knox’s work aims to resolve, at least in part, those difficulties of the New Testament for those who “want to read the Bible for themselves without shirking the difficulties.”\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eIn this second volume, Knox treats the Acts of the Apostles and St. Paul's Letters to the\u003cbr\u003eChurches, offering clear and concise explanations of disputed and difficult texts. 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When Jesus himself begins to proclaim the Gospel, he repeats that demand: “Jesus began to preach:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRepent, he said, the kingdom of heaven is at hand.\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA strange command, to do penance and pursue perfection, given that its inspiration is a mystery. Knowledge of this mystery demands clues; Jesus provides these clues in the form of famous parables and enduring images. In the seventeen sermons of \u003ci\u003eThe Mystery of the Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e, Monsignor Ronald Knox examines these parables and images. The first series of sermons reflects on the parables as a whole, with uniform principles of interpretation and a firm foundation in Catholic doctrine of the Church and of human salvation thrown into relief against a background of Jewish Messianic speculation. The second series convenes the principal actors in Christ’s Passion, under headings suggested by the parable of the Sower.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eFaithful to the spirit and the letter of Scripture, dexterous in interpretation, and decisively effective in preaching, Knox’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mystery of the Kingdom\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(originally published in 1928) proclaims the mystery of Christ and sets forth a standard for living and loving the Christian life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eJesus answered him: Believe me when I tell thee this—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ea man cannot see the kingdom of God without being born anew.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(The Gospel of John)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52343367827737,"sku":"MOTK","price":32.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/0989\/5705\/files\/mystery_of_the_kingdom.jpg?v=1778044647"},{"product_id":"charles-disckebs-chest","title":"Charles Dickens: A Critical Study","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePaperback, 288 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“There is no better critic of Dickens,”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewrote T. 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An absorbing blend of biography and literary analysis, delivered in Chesterton’s inimitable style, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eStudy\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etreats of Dickens’ childhood and his early forays into writing; his successes and failures; his works and characters; and, most especially, his attitudes and approaches to seeing the world and man’s place in it and then setting that vision down in books.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhimsical, well-read, and worth its weight in literary gold, Chesterton’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCharles Dickens: A Critical Study\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a testament worthy of its task: to appraise (and to praise) the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDavid Copperfield\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBleak House\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Pickwick Papers\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand creator of such characters as Oliver Twist and Mr. Micawber and Miss Havisham, and mediate that “ungovernable sense of life” which defines the world of Dickens.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52422674514201,"sku":"CDIC","price":32.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/0989\/5705\/files\/CD.jpg?v=1780462067"},{"product_id":"wanderings","title":"Wanderings Over the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePaperback, 362 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eGilbert Keith Chesterton\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e needs no introduction. 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