Pio Nono normal and profound sermons

and profound sermons

from Leo XIII onwards

captures the “frill-lessness” and crisp candor of the original

” In this compleat biography

prepared shortly before Georges Bernanos’s death

Pio Nono normal and profound sermonsBy E. E. Y. Hales Pio Nono, regarded by friend and foe alike as the founder of the modern papacy, the Pope who recovered for the Papacy an influence it had not enjoyed since the Council of Trent, has nevertheless become a largely forgotten or ignored figure. That is thanks, according to E. E. Y. Hales, not to the kind of man he was, but to the kind of record history keeps. If historical epochs were known for their tragic heroes instead of their