When the Abbey of Monte Cassino was bombed last week, it was not only the destruction of the 1,400-year-old religious and cultural monument that stirred the world. It was the thought that the Abbey of Monte Cassino, a unique beacon of the spirit lit at the very onset of the Dark Ages, was being demolished by the military necessities of a civilization closer to the brink than any other has been since that earlier human crisis.
Disgust in Rome. The man who lit the beacon was St. Benedict of Nursia. The facts of St....
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