The Layman and His Conscience Stories Such occasions will prove numerous

Such occasions will prove numerous and varied over the decades-long pursuit for wisdom and purity

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

The burden of My Thirty-Third Year is the story of their unbounded suffering: the starvation and cold

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

The Layman and His Conscience Stories Such occasions will prove numerousBy 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