Leisure, the Basis of Culture Tarry

Leisure, the Basis of Culture TarryOne of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Joseph Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture is more significant, even more crucial than it was when it first appeared fifty years ago. Pieper shows that Greeks understood and valued leisure, as did the medieval Europeans. He points out that religion can be born only in leisure a leisure that allows time for the contemplation of the nature of God. Leisure has been, and

In about 800 lines of well-wrought verse

The Viceroy and the Archbishop held a hasty meeting

only to be left the sole survivor of a rampage by a monster whale

In the midst of it all

kings and emperors

most exact

preaching and teaching their way across much of the known world

The incredible story for children 10 and up of the man who received the Rosary from Our Lady

pastoral considerations ("The Teaching of the Church" by Helen Hull Hitchcock

This book retells the whole story of Our Lord's Passion

as William Kilpatrick shows in this brilliant book

Triumph over your self-will