The Cross and the Crisis Spiritual “invent new ideals because they

“invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals

The Month of the Falling Leaves

ISBN: 978-1952826450

ISBN: 978-1944418571

The Cross and the Crisis Spiritual “invent new ideals because theyBy Fulton J. Sheen The distress of modernity, contends Fulton J. Sheen in The Cross and the Crisis, is fundamentally moral and religious in nature. Men, as G. K. Chestertons famously remarked, 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 Sheen, is the result of a fear ridden flight from the cross of Jesus Christ, a reckless