Captive Flames Sheed a childless sailor’s wife adopts

a childless sailor’s wife adopts a baby boy

José María Gironella (1917–2003) was a Spanish novelist

is an extraordinary effort to consider the nature of God and how we can know Him

winning thrice (It Happened One Night

and translation

Captive Flames Sheed a childless sailor’s wife adoptsBy Ronald Knox The main theme of the twenty one panegyrics collected in Captive Flames, as Ronald Knox writes in his Dedication to Arnold Lunn, is something which does not alter with our shifting perspectives, does not grow old. The saints do not belong to a period. They are fixed stars, not subject to any law of impermanence. Illustrating this dauntless fixity of the Communion of Saints and their meritorious example to earthly wayfarers are sermons