The Cross and the Crisis Pieper Watkin (1888–1981) was an English

Watkin (1888–1981) was an English writer and convert to Catholicism

and aesthetics by critical examination of the lives and works of selected writers and visionaries

By Étienne Gilson and Thomas Langan

He has published several articles on Renaissance literature

Thomas Aquinas

The Cross and the Crisis Pieper Watkin (1888–1981) was an EnglishBy 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