The Layman and His Conscience Stories arise from an incomprehensible mystery

arise from an incomprehensible mystery

A political satire akin to Graham Greene’s classic Our Man in Havana—more lighthearted but no less clever—The Month of Falling Leaves is a diverting story

yet as he renews the old acquaintances and rehears the old stories

The years 1870 to 1939 witnessed wave after wave of assault upon Christ and his Church

his fiction includes A Handful of Dust (1934)

The Layman and His Conscience Stories arise from an incomprehensible mysteryBy Ronald Knox A proper examination of conscience is surely one of the most challenging tasks of the Christian life. For the laity, charged with the work of sanctifying the world from within as a leaven (in the words of Lumen gentium), this task is made especially difficult by the clamorous distractions which come simply from being in the world, even if not of the world. To ease the difficulty of this task, Monsignor Knox offers in The Layman and His