Saint Jerome: The Early Years Charles de Foucauld and a convert to Catholicism

and a convert to Catholicism

As intense as it is inspiring

Focusing on literature as well as on politics

Columba strove only to live the life of the saints of God

the Catholic Church and modernity seem to be two entities inextricably at odds with one another

Saint Jerome: The Early Years Charles de Foucauld and a convert to CatholicismBy Paul Monceaux Saint Jerome was a born writer, individual, fresh, sparkling with verve and (at times) vitriol; a great scholar, accomplished in languages, exegesis, and history; and, above all, an ingenious translator, whose Vulgate is the Churchs official Latin Bible. Despite the longstanding fame of his literary and spiritual legacies, however, the saints historical life has not always received equal care. In this equally instructive and