7 Foreword Professor Anthony Esolen is well known for the skill with which he wields his pen, as well as his passion for teaching the great treasures of Western civilization, especially those that find their roots in the Catholic Faith. After several years of regular writing for Magnificat, with different themes and topics from year to year—from the sacraments to the Last Things, from liturgy to literature, including an entire year dedicated to Dante’s Divine Comedy—in December of 2013 Professor Esolen began writing a new column, “How the Church Has Changed the World.” It is a column he still writes, and which continues to garner the interest and appreciation of readers. This volume, which comprises the first two years of that column, responds to a steady flow of requests to make his essays available again. They are back, as the saying goes, by popular demand. In these twenty-five essays—which include the inspiring witness of priests, religious, and laity; which touch on the arts and sciences, civilian life and government, the realm of ideas and practical
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