Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Bernanos, Georges

  • Bernanos on Prayer

    Georges Bernanos has the protagonist of his The Diary of a Country Priest (Image Books, 1954, pp. 81-82, tr. P. Morris, orig. publ. 1937) write the following into his journal:   The usual notion of prayer is so absurd. How can those who know nothing about it, who pray little or not at all, dare…