Each Christmastime, the monks of a certain Benedictine abbey in England put whatever talents they may have to work for the entertainment of their brothers. Last Christmas one of them scratched out a collection of cartoons satirizing the cloistered life, and the brethren nearly split their blackrobed sides laughing at themselves. When Roman Catholic Publisher Francis Sheed saw the sketches in England last year, he begged to make a book of them.
The abbot gladly gave his permission. His reason: in the Middle Ages, when the religious life was close to the secular and monks were as everyday as draymen, sanctity was...
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