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Yet this peace must come at the price of Christianity’s demise, so the nations in concert move to purge the Church’s deadly poison from the corpus of human society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003ePater Sancte, sic transit gloria mundi! \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e(Ceremony of Papal Coronation)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eAs the “consummation of history” increases the mass defections from and rampant apostasy in the Church, the last bastion of religion, those who remain must endure persecution, torture, and death. 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As the dawn of the twenty-first century looms, so too does the threat of a new world war. Julian Felsenburgh, a young, mysterious American politician, is crossing the globe on a diplomatic mission. Inverting the words of Christ, he promises to the world: \u003ci\u003eFollow me and you will know\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003ci\u003enot a sword\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003ci\u003ebut peace\u003c\/i\u003e. Yet this peace must come at the price of Christianity’s demise, so the nations in concert move to purge the Church’s deadly poison from the corpus of human society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003ePater Sancte, sic transit gloria mundi! \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e(Ceremony of Papal Coronation)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eAs the “consummation of history” increases the mass defections from and rampant apostasy in the Church, the last bastion of religion, those who remain must endure persecution, torture, and death. Through this apocalyptic maelstrom moves the English Catholic priest Percy Franklin, resolute and artful, to confront and chastise this demonic power in the ultimate conflict at Armageddon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Hugh Benson \u003c\/b\u003e(1871–1914), the son of the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, was a convert to Roman Catholicism and was ordained a priest in 1904. 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Sheen)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" class=\"p1\"\u003e“Benson’s vision in the \u003ci\u003eLord of the World\u003c\/i\u003e [is] of the universal Church reduced to a fugitive pope bearing solitary witness to the truth which all mankind else had abandoned.” (Evelyn Waugh)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" class=\"p1\"\u003e“This novel and C. S. Lewis’s \u003ci\u003eThat Hideous Strength\u003c\/i\u003e are the most frightening books that I have ever read. Now…when I ask myself why this fright, it is because both books make the this-worldly triumph of evil so plausible, so intellectual, so logical.” (James V. 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