Shadows on the Rock spo-default By Saint Leo the Great

By Saint Leo the Great | Foreword by Pope Benedict XVI

But no common man was he

and it is precisely from faith that the Church’s social teaching begins

as Romano Guardini attests in his Introduction

Shadows on the Rock spo-default By Saint Leo the GreatBy Willa Cather On an October afternoon in the year 1697, Euclide Auclair watches the last summer ship set sail from Quebec for France. For the next eight months, this proud rock in the Northern wilderness where Euclide lives and raises his twelve year old daughter, Ccile, is entirely cut off from Europe, from the world. For the father, the New World is isolation, exile; for the daughter, it is home, a place of familiarity and miracle alike. Set