A Kiss for the Leper Sheed Midway through her poignant “Office

Midway through her poignant “Office for a Dead Child

patristic and classicist scholar Herbert Musurillo

Paperback: 394pp

unburnished vision of the conflict between good and evil

and in 2012 Pope Benedict XVI declared him “Venerable

A Kiss for the Leper Sheed Midway through her poignant “OfficeBy Franois Mauriac With an Essay by Anthony Esolen Jean Ploueyre, as ingrate heir to an extensive French estate, is a maladroit, misshapen, misbegotten young man. The very antithesis of a hero, Jean stands very much in need of salvation. And yet, as Anthony Esolen writes in the essay accompanying the novel, The redeemers and the redeemed are not whom we expect. Against Nietzschean notions of power and sentimental dilutions of Christianity, Franois